Messing with the Enemy: Surviving in a Social Media World of Hackers, Terrorists, Russians, and Fake News Audiobook (Free)

A former FBI Special Agent, U.S. Army officer and leading cyber-security professional offers a devastating and essential look at the misinformation promotions, fake news, and electronic espionage operations that have become the cutting edge of contemporary warfare-and how exactly we can protect ourselves and our country against them.

Clint Watts electrified the country when he testified before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence regarding Russian interference in the 2016 election. In Messing with about Messing with the Enemy: Making it through in a SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING World of Hackers, Terrorists, Russians, and Fake Information the Foe, the counterterrorism, cybersecurity and homeland protection expert presents us to a terrifying world where terrorists and cyber criminals don’t hack your personal computer, they hack your brain. W reveals how these malefactors make use of your social networking information and that of your loved ones, friends and colleagues to map your internet sites, identify your vulnerabilities, master your doubts and harness your requirements.

Because of the strategies engineered by social media manipulators using you as well as your details, business executives have coughed up millions in fraudulent wire transfers, seemingly good kids have got joined the Islamic State, and staunch anti-communist Reagan Republicans have cheered the Russian government’s hacking of a Democratic presidential candidate’s e-mails. Watts knows the way they do it because he’s mirrored their solutions to understand their intentions, combat their activities, and coopt their efforts.

Watts examines a range of social networking platforms-from the first Internet forums to the present titans of Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn-and nefarious actors-from al Qaeda to the Islamic State to the Russian social media marketing troll farm-to illuminate just how they make use of Western social media marketing for their nefarious reasons. He explains how he’s learned, through his successes and his failures, to activate with hackers, terrorists, and even the Russians-and how these relationships have generated methods for fighting back against those that look for to harm people on the web. He concludes with a snapshot of how advances in artificial cleverness will make future influence even more effective and dangerous to social media marketing users and democratic governments world-wide. Surprising, funny, and eye-opening, Messing using the Foe is usually a deeply immediate guide for living secure and smart in a super-connected world.