Taming the Hacking Storm

Chapter Summaries

Here I summarize what is covered in each chapter.

Part I. Identifying the Problem

Part I discusses how bad Internet security is and the main underlying problem.

Chapter 1: How Bad Is Internet Security

Chapter 1 discusses how bad Internet cybercrime is, using reported statistics and figures. It shouldn’t shock anyone that cybercrime involves many billions of dollars each year with millions and millions of victims. Any solution(s) to significantly improve Internet security, if successful, should significantly decrease these figures over time.

Chapter 2: How We Are Attacked and Why

This chapter covers how all Internet malicious hacking and malware exploitation happens. It focuses on the initial root access causes of hacking and the motivations of the involved cybercriminals. This chapter is a comprehensive, albeit brief, look at the cybercrime ecosystem that a good Internet security solution would mitigate.

Chapter 3: The Problem

Behind most cybercrime lies one main underlying problem that allows all the others to flourish. This chapter discusses a similar real-world crime issue and what it took to solve it. It covers the main Internet security problem we need to solve ahead of all others.

Chapter 4: Challenges

Internet security hasn’t been great for decades. Everyone knows cybercrime is rampant. So why haven’t better solutions been deployed for the decades the Internet has been in existence? Chapter 4 covers the big reasons why we don’t yet ...