The Language of Cyber Attacks

A Rhetoric of Deception

Aaron Mauro (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

240 Seiten

2024
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-35468-5 (ISBN)

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Many cyberattacks begin with a lure: a seemingly innocent message designed to establish trust with a target to obtain sensitive information or compromise a computer system. The perils of clicking an unknown link or divulging sensitive information via email are well-known, so why do we continue to fall prey to these malicious messages? This groundbreaking book examines the rhetoric of deception through the lure, asking where its all-too-human allure comes from and suggesting ways in which we can protect ourselves online.

Examining practices and tools such as phishing, ransomware and clickbait, this book uses case studies of notorious cyberattacks by both cyber criminals and nation-states on organizations such Facebook, Google, and the US Department of Defence, and in-depth, computational analyses of the messages themselves to unpack the rhetoric of cyberattacks. In doing so, it helps us to understand the small but crucial moments of indecision that pervade one of the most common forms of written communication.

Aaron Mauro is Associate Professor of Digital Media at Brock University, Canada.

1. Cybersecurity as an Expression of Values

2. The Attribution Problem

3. Automatic Anxiety

4. Conti Leaks

Selected Bibliography

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Erscheinungsdatum	17.09.2024
Reihe/Serie	Bloomsbury Studies in Digital Cultures
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Informatik ► Netzwerke ► Sicherheit / Firewall
ISBN-10	1-350-35468-6 / 1350354686
ISBN-13	978-1-350-35468-5 / 9781350354685
Zustand	Neuware