The White House has declared homeland security and cyberterrorism prevention a top priority - bringing it into the headlines and the minds of the public. This text presents an insider view of the White House on and after September 11th from the perspective of the nation's top cybersecurity and counterterrorism experts. It investigates what the global and financial implications are, the impact on civil liberties and how to prepare and prevent against cyberterrorism.

Table of Contents

1: Cyber-Terrorism: Fact or Fiction? 2: Black Ice: Cyber-Terrorism's Hidden Dangers 3: Terror on a Wire: The Internet as Weapon 4: Terror in the Air: The Wireless Threat 5: Al-Qaeda: In Search of Bin Laden's Hackers 6: Web of Terror: What al-Qaeda Knows about the U.S. 7: 9/11: The Cyber-terrorist Attack 8: Intelligence: Stopping the Next Attack 9: Dark Winter: Technology and Early Warning 10: Patriot Games: Security, Terror, Liberty 11: The War on Terror: Mobilizing for the Future A: Critical Infrastructures B: PDD-63 at a Glance C: Remarks on Cyber-Terrorism D: The Homeland Security Challenge: Source: U.S. Department of Homeland Security

About the Author

Dan Verton, a former intelligence officer in the U.S. Marine Corps., has made several appearances on national news broadcasts, such as CNN, and has spoken at the Library of Congress and the United Nations as a recognized expert in national cyber-security, defense, and intelligence issues. He is the author of The Hacker Diaries: Confessions of Teenage Hackers and is currently a senior writer on the staff of Computerworld.