Asia Pacific University Library catalogue

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Could something like this really happen?" -- "It's all about the information" -- A cyber Pearl Harbor -- Eligible receiver -- Solar sunrise, moonlight maze -- The coordinator meets Mudge -- Deny, exploit, corrupt, destroy -- Tailored access -- Cyber wars -- Buckshot Yankee -- "The whole haystack" -- "Somebody has crossed the Rubicon" -- Shady RATs -- "The five guys report" -- "We're wandering in dark territory."

"In June 1983, President Reagan watched the movie War Games, in which a teenager unwittingly hacks the Pentagon, and asked his top general if the scenario was plausible. The general said it was. This set in motion the first presidential directive on computer security. From the 1991 Gulf War to conflicts in Haiti, Serbia, Syria, the former Soviet republics, Iraq, and Iran, where cyber warfare played a significant role, Dark Territory chronicles a little-known past that shines an unsettling light on our future. Fred Kaplan probes the inner corridors of the National Security Agency, the beyond-top-secret cyber units in the Pentagon, the "information warfare" squads of the military services, and the national security debates in the White House to reveal the details of the officers, policymakers, scientists, and spies who devised this new form of warfare and who have been planning--and (more often than people know) fighting--these wars for decades."--Publisher's description.