Hacking Isis

by Nance, Malcolm; Sampson, Chris; Soufan, Ali H.

• ISBN13: 9781510718920
• ISBN10: 1510718923
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2017-04-25
• Publisher: Skyhorse Pub Co Inc

Summary

This book is written by two of the leading terrorist experts in the world - Malcolm Nance, NBC News and MSNBC terrorism analyst and New York Times bestselling author of Defeating ISIS and the forthcoming Hacking ISIS, and Christopher Sampson, cyber-terrorist expert. Malcolm Nance is a 35 year practitioner in Middle East Special Operations and terrorism intelligence activities. Chris Sampson is the terrorism media and cyber warfare expert for the Terror Asymmetric Project and has spent 15 years collecting and exploiting terrorism media. For two years, their Terror Asymmetrics Project has been attacking and exploiting intelligence found on ISIS Dark Web operations.

Hacking ISIS will explain and illustrate in graphic detail how ISIS produces religious cultism, recruits vulnerable young people of all religions and nationalities and disseminates their brutal social media to the world.
More, the book will map out the cyberspace level tactics on how ISIS spreads its terrifying content, how it distributes tens of thousands of pieces of propaganda daily and is winning the battle in Cyberspace and how to stop it in its tracks.

Hacking ISIS is uniquely positioned to give an insider’s view into how this group spreads its ideology and brainwashes tens of thousands of followers to join the cult that is the Islamic State and how average computer users can engage in the removal of ISIS from the internet.

Author Biography

Malcolm Nance is a globally recognized counterterrorism expert and intelligence community member who has been deployed to intelligence operations in the Balkans, the Middle East, and sub-Saharan Africa. He is the author of The Plot to Hack America and Defeating ISIS and he appears regularly on MSNBC. Nance lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Nance was named a Genius for the Third Annual MSNBC and 92Y “7 Days of Genius” Festival in March 2016. Christopher Sampson is an expert in multimedia and terrorist use of cyberspace. He maintains the Terrorpedia database of the Terror Asymmetrics Project on Strategy, Tactics, and Radical Ideologies (TAPSTRI) along with spearheading that group’s Terror Counter-Ideology Disrupt and Eliminate project. Sampson has been featured on the BBC as well as numerous radio broadcasts and newspapers. Ali H. Soufan is a former FBI special agent and counterterrorism interrogator. He is author of the New York Times bestseller The Black Banners: The Inside Story of 9/11 and the War against Al Qaeda.