Surviving the Wild Wild Web - Marton Gergely, Ian Grey, Heba Saleous

Surviving the Wild Wild Web

A User’s Playbook to Navigating the Internet's Trickiest Terrains
Buch | Hardcover
224 Seiten
2024
CRC Press (Verlag)
978-1-032-67937-2 (ISBN)
99,75 inkl. MwSt
The information security arena is often vague and confusing for internet users and fallling into cyber traps can take ethical, financial, physical and mental tolls on individuals. With increasing cases of fake news, identity theft, piracy, spying and scams surfacing, this book explains the risks of the internet and how they can be mitigated.
The information security arena is often vague and confusing for internet users, both young and old. New traps are being devised daily, and falling into them can take legal, ethical, financial, physical, and mental tolls on individuals. With increasing cases of fake news, identity theft, piracy, spying and scams surfacing, this book explains the risks of the internet and how they can be mitigated from a personal and professional perspective.

Surviving the Wild Wild Web: A User’s Playbook to Navigating the Internet’s Trickiest Terrains is a readable guide addressing the malicious behaviors within internet cultures. Written in simple and jargon-free language, the book describes ten pillars of information security risks faced by all internet users. Each pillar will be detailed as a story, starting with the roots of the problem and branching out into tangential related issues and topics. Each chapter ends by detailing ways a user can avoid falling victim to cyber threats. It uses a combination of news articles, topical current events, and previously published academic research to underpin the ideas and navigates how users interact with the world wide web. The book aims to create a generation of internet literate readers who can spot the pitfalls of the internet in their personal and professional lives to surf the web safely.

This guide will appeal to any individual interested in internet safety, with a potential readership extending to students and professionals in the fields of computer science, information systems, cybersecurity, business, management, human resources, psychology, medicine, education, law, and policy.

Marton Gergely teaches in the Department of Information Systems and Security at the United Arab Emirates University. He was born in New Delhi, India, and grew up in Budapest, Hungary. He holds a PhD in Business Administration, with an emphasis in Information Technology, from the University of Texas at San Antonio, USA. His current research interests include digital piracy, social and cognitive psychology in technology use, cyber law and ethics, social desirability bias, as well as emerging technologies. Dr. Ian Grey was born and raised in the wilds of Co. Waterford, Ireland. He holds a BA and a PhD. in Psychology from the National University of Ireland (Cork) and a DClin. Psych from Trinity College Dublin. He holds additional postgraduate qualifications in Applied Behavior Analysis and in Forensic Psychology. He is currently Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology in the Department of Cognitive Science, United Arab Emirates University where he teaches courses on clinical psychology practice. His research interests include cognitive vulnerabilities, neuro-developmental disorders and determinants of mental health. Heba Saleous is a Palestinian-American currently working towards earning her PhD in Information Security at the United Arab Emirates University under the supervision of Dr. Marton Gergely. She holds an MSc in Information Security from the same institution. Her current research interests include digital forensics, video game forensics and security, cybercrime and terrorism, cybercriminal behavior, and malware.

Contents

About the authors

Introduction

Chapter 1: Pirates of the Ethernet – Adventures in Illegal Downloading

Chapter 2: If You Teach a Man to Phish… – The Mechanics of Internet Scams

Chapter 3: Me, Myself, and a Stranger – Chronicles of an Identity Thief

Chapter 4: Lies, Likes, and LOLs – Social Media’s Fake News Fiasco

Chapter 5: Hacking Health – The Internet’s Influence on Medical Information

Chapter 6: I Spy with My Little Eye – The Internet and Digital Espionage

Chapter 7: Bytes and Blues – How the Internet Plays with Adult Minds

Chapter 8: Pixelated Perils – The Double-Edged Sword of Online Gaming

Chapter 9: From Swings to Smartphones – The Impact of Social Media on Kids

Chapter 10: The Ghost in the Machine – AI’s Unseen Influence

Epilogue

Acknowledgements

Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag 26.12.2024
Zusatzinfo 3 Line drawings, black and white; 3 Halftones, black and white; 6 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 129 x 198 mm
Themenwelt Mathematik / Informatik Informatik
Recht / Steuern Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht IT-Recht
Sozialwissenschaften Kommunikation / Medien Kommunikationswissenschaft
Technik
ISBN-10 1-032-67937-9 / 1032679379
ISBN-13 978-1-032-67937-2 / 9781032679372
Zustand Neuware
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