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Summary of Peter Warmka's Confessions of a CIA Spy
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 I was raised in a Catholic family, and I left home at 14 to enter St. Lawrence Seminary, which prepares young men for possible vocations into the priesthood. I left seminary studies, but my mission experiences left me with a strong desire to someday work in Latin America. #2 The U. S. intelligence community does not typically collect information on commercial companies overseas, but many foreign intelligence services do target American companies. They are trying to steal technology by acquiring intellectual property. #3 The industry with the greatest number of ongoing security breaches is healthcare. The information stolen can be used for malicious purposes. Regardless of the collection goals, state actors are primarily motivated by extreme loyalty to their country. #4 The vast majority of security breaches are conducted by criminal groups. They will target entities through other tactics, such as ransomware, which will encrypt the victim’s data and hold it hostage in exchange for payment of the ransom.
Confessions of a CIA Spy
What can you learn from a CIA spy who spent his career artfully manipulating regular people to steal high-value secrets? Plenty! In this explosive book, former intelligence officer Peter Warmka unveils detailed methodologies that he and other threat actors use to breach the security of their targets, whether they're high-profile individuals or entire organizations. His illustrative examples reveal: the motivations and objectives behind attempted breaches by foreign intelligence services, criminal groups, industrial competitors, activists and other threat actors how social media and carefully crafted insights into a victim's motivations and vulnerabilities are leveraged during phishing, smish...
Breaking Cover
A real-life, can’t-put-down spy memoir. The CIA is looking for walking contradictions. Recruiters seek out potential agents who can keep a secret yet pull classified information out of others; who love their country but are willing to leave it behind for dangerous places; who live double lives, but can be trusted with some of the nation’s most highly sensitive tasks. Michele Rigby Assad was one of those people. As a CIA agent and a counterterrorism expert, Michele soon found that working undercover was an all-encompassing job. The threats were real; the assignments perilous. Michele spent over a decade in the agency—a woman leading some of the most highly skilled operatives on the plan...
Techno-Crimes and the Evolution of Investigations
Technology is growing exponentially, and techno-crimes are evolving faster than legal systems, law enforcement, and investigators.Criminals use technologies such as darknets, cryptocurrencies, the Internet of Things, "Cosmos" computing, deepfakes, and data poisoning to commit crimes and hide evidence of their activity.Developing technologies including autonomous vehicles, bio-hacking, decentralized networks, brainwave hacking, and augmented or virtual reality will create new types of crime that have never before existed.Techno-Crimes and the Evolution of Investigations explains why technology will force investigations to transform into a completely different profession than exists today and ...
Coastal and Marine Environments
This book systematizes the concepts of contemporary coastal zone management and suggests possible structural and non-structural management tools for decision-making processes. Some successful adaptation measures and case studies on oceanic processes and coastal protection are discussed. High-frequency communications in coastal and marine environments are also addressed.All chapters contribute relevant information and useful content to scientists and other readers interested or concerned about the lack of adequate management actions and the installation of appropriate protections or their ineffectiveness in containing coastal vulnerabilities and risks.
Human Hacking
A global security expert draws on psychological insights to help you master the art of social engineering—human hacking. Make friends, influence people, and leave them feeling better for having met you by being more empathetic, generous, and kind. Eroding social conventions, technology, and rapid economic change are making human beings more stressed and socially awkward and isolated than ever. We live in our own bubbles, reluctant to connect, and feeling increasingly powerless, insecure, and apprehensive when communicating with others. A pioneer in the field of social engineering and a master hacker, Christopher Hadnagy specializes in understanding how malicious attackers exploit principle...
The Cost of Doing Politics
Reveals how and why corporate political influence remains largely invisible to the public eye.
The Art of Talking to Anyone: Essential People Skills for Success in Any Situation
From the author of How to Say It, the million-copies-sold bestseller If you want to improve your conversational skills--and achieve greater levels of personal and professional success--The Art of Talking to Anyone is the ultimate book. Rosalie Maggio has built a career on teaching people how to say the right thing at the right time--and she's made her techniques available to you. This essential communication handbook includes: Sample dialogues, topics, and responses Quick-reference dos and don'ts Tips for handling special situations Confidence-building advice and quotations Key words that get to the business at hand Whether it's small talk or big, social or work-related, The Art of Talking to Anyone gives you all the tools you need to speak up with confidence, to charm and persuade, and to talk your way through any situation--successfully.
To Catch a Spy
The United States is losing the counterintelligence war. Foreign intelligence services, particularly those of China, Russia, and Cuba, are recruiting spies in our midst and stealing our secrets and cutting-edge technologies. In To Catch a Spy: The Art of Counterintelligence, James M. Olson, former chief of CIA counterintelligence, offers a wake-up call for the American public and also a guide for how our country can do a better job of protecting its national security secrets. Olson takes the reader into the arcane world of counterintelligence as he lived it during his thirty-year career in the CIA. After an overview of what the Chinese, Russian, and Cuban spy services are doing to the United...
