The technology controlling United States nuclear weapons predates the Internet. Updating the technology for the digital era is necessary, but it comes with the risk that anything digital can be hacked. Moreover, using new systems for both nuclear and non-nuclear operations will lead to levels of nuclear risk hardly imagined before. This book is the first to confront these risks comprehensively.With Cyber Threats and Nuclear Weapons, Herbert Lin provides a clear-eyed breakd...

O que está por trás de um candidato vencedor? Inovação e boas estratégias eleitorais empregadas nas pré-campanhas e campanhas eleitorais. O candidato consciente sabe que campanhas eleitorais na base do improviso acabaram, e na presente obra sobre marketing eleitoral, candidatos, consultores e assessores, vão encontrar orientações para posicionar o candidato perante o público-alvo, observando os pontos estratégicos eleitorais para aumentar as chances de vitória. Em face disso, o autor Herbe...

In a very short time, individuals and companies have harnessed cyberspace to create new industries, a vibrant social space, and a new economic sphere that are intertwined with our everyday lives. At the same time, individuals, subnational groups, and governments are using cyberspace to advance interests through malicious activity. Terrorists recruit, train, and target through the Internet, hackers steal data, and intelligence services conduct espionage. Still, the vast majority of cyberspa...

Einlagensicherung im DACHL-RaumDie Finanzkrise hat zahlreiche Regulierungen nach sich gezogen, mit denen sich Banken und Aufsichtsbehörden auseinandersetzen müssen. Dazu zählt auch eine weitreichende Reform der Einlagensicherungssysteme, welche primär dem Zweck dienen, einen Teil der finanziellen Ersparnisse und Vermögensanlagen breiter Bevölkerungsschichten zu schützen. Auch wenn sich die Idee der "Einlagensicherung" mittlerweile global durchgesetzt hat, so besteh...

We are dropping cyber bombs. We have never done that before.-U.S. Defense Department officialA new era of war fighting is emerging for the U.S. military. Hi-tech weapons have given way to hi tech in a number of instances recently:A computer virus is unleashed that destroys centrifuges in Iran, slowing that country's attempt to build a nuclear weapon.ISIS, which has made the internet the backbone of its terror operations, finds its network-based comma...

In our "post-truth" era of bots, trolls, and intemperate presidential tweets, popular social platforms like Twitter and Facebook provide a growing medium for manipulation of information directed to individuals, institutions, and global leaders. Targetedinfluence campaigns have been waged in at least forty-eight countries so far. We've entered an age where stability during an international crisis can be deliberately manipulated at greater speed, on a larger scale, and at a lower cost...

This book focuses on the interaction and mutual influences between the East and the West in terms of their legal systems and practices. In this regard, it highlights Professor Herbert H.P. Ma’s achievements and his efforts to bring Eastern and Western legal concepts and systems closer together.The book shows that, while there have been convergences between different legal regimes in many fields of law, diverse legal practices and approaches rooted in differing cultural, social, pol...