rdf-syntax-grammar
mods:
  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Ransom War
    sub title: How Cyber Crime Became a Threat to National Security
  name:
    name part: Smeets, Max.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: aut
  type of resource: text
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xx
    place:
      place term: S.l.]
    publisher: Hurst Publishers
    date issued: 2025
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (256 p.)
  abstract: This timely book explores the alarming rise of ransomware: malicious software blocking users from their systems or data, until they've paid money to regain access or to prevent the release of sensitive information. High-profile British examples of the twenty-first century have targeted national libraries and hospital trusts; in the US, hackers of Pennsylvania's Lehigh Valley Health Network held patient data hostage--when their demands went unmet, they published topless photographs of women with breast cancer. The issue presents formidable challenges and costs for businesses, national security and, as the Pennsylvania case showed, individuals--often society's most vulnerable. But we can watch and learn from cyber extortionists, leaving us better prepared for next time. In 2022, a series of devastating ransomware attacks prompted Costa Rica's President to declare a national emergency, describing a 'state of war'. This episode had much to tell us about how these networks arise, operate, organise--and collapse. Max Smeets' landmark study demystifies the ransomware playbook, from funding to networking. Through one of the largest ransomware operations on record, he reveals how this challenge has evolved, how it differs in substance and style from traditional cyber/hacking threats, and how to combat it.
  target audience: General adult.
  note: Max Smeets.
  subject:
    topic: Cyberterrorism
  subject:
    topic: Computer security
  subject:
    topic: Computer crimes
  subject:
    topic: National security
  subject:
    topic: Cyberterrorisme
  subject:
    topic: Sécurité informatique
  subject:
    topic: Criminalité informatique
  subject:
    topic: Security (National & International)
  subject:
    topic: POLITICAL SCIENCE
  subject:
    topic: Social services & welfare, criminology
  subject:
    topic: Society
  classification: HV6773.15.C97
  classification: 363.325
  identifier: 1805262661
  identifier: 9781805262664
  identifier: avdy49r9 cloudLibrary
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: CLOUD
    record creation date: 250221
    record change date: 20260319205730.1
    record identifier: in00005728020
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng