This SpringerBrief presents the underlying principles of machine learning and how to deploy various deep learning tools and techniques to tackle and solve certain challenges facing the cybersecurity industry. By implementing innovative deep learning solutions, cybersecurity researchers, students and practitioners can analyze patterns and learn how to prevent cyber-attacks and respond to changing malware behavior. The knowledge and tools introduced in this brief can also assist cybersecurity teams to become more proactive in preventing threats and responding to active attacks in real time. It can reduce the amount of time spent on routine tasks and enable organizations to use their resources more strategically. In short, the knowledge and techniques provided in this brief can help make cybersecurity simpler, more proactive, less expensive and far more effective Advanced-level students in computer science studying machine learning with a cybersecurity focus will find this SpringerBrief useful as a study guide. Researchers and cybersecurity professionals focusing on the application of machine learning tools and techniques to the cybersecurity domain will also want to purchase this SpringerBrief.
This SpringerBrief discusses underlying principles of malware reverse engineering and introduces the major techniques and tools needed to effectively analyze malware that targets business organizations. It also covers the examination of real-world malware samples, which illustrates the knowledge and skills necessary to take control of cyberattacks. This SpringerBrief explores key tools and techniques to learn the main elements of malware analysis from the inside out. It also presents malware reverse engineering using several methodical phases, in order to gain a window into the mind set of hackers. Furthermore, this brief examines malicious program’s behavior and views its code-level patterns. Real world malware specimens are used to demonstrate the emerging behavioral patterns of battlefield malware as well. This SpringerBrief is unique, because it demonstrates the capabilities of emerging malware by conducting reverse-code engineering on real malware samples and conducting behavioral analysis in isolated lab system. Specifically, the author focuses on analyzing malicious Windows executables. This type of malware poses a large threat to modern enterprises. Attackers often deploy malicious documents and browser-based exploits to attack Windows enterprise environment. Readers learn how to take malware inside-out using static properties analysis, behavioral analysis and code-level analysis techniques. The primary audience for this SpringerBrief is undergraduate students studying cybersecurity and researchers working in this field. Cyber security professionals that desire to learn more about malware analysis tools and techniques will also want to purchase this SpringerBrief.
I used to be weak, I would fall for anything, cry from the most simple cut. You could hurt me with the slightest touch; make me love you by just a look. But breaking me doesnt hurt me anymore. It strengthens me. This mistake only makes me stronger. I am dangerous. Olivia Williams is exactly how she described herself: dangerous. Shes got blue hair, a strange marking and strange abilities. Do you think that will stop her from living her life to the fullest? No. But what else does it bring? A battle, heartbreak and a whole load of excitement.
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This SpringerBrief discusses underlying principles of malware reverse engineering and introduces the major techniques and tools needed to effectively analyze malware that targets business organizations. It also covers the examination of real-world malware samples, which illustrates the knowledge and skills necessary to take control of cyberattacks. This SpringerBrief explores key tools and techniques to learn the main elements of malware analysis from the inside out. It also presents malware reverse engineering using several methodical phases, in order to gain a window into the mind set of hackers. Furthermore, this brief examines malicious program’s behavior and views its code-level patterns. Real world malware specimens are used to demonstrate the emerging behavioral patterns of battlefield malware as well. This SpringerBrief is unique, because it demonstrates the capabilities of emerging malware by conducting reverse-code engineering on real malware samples and conducting behavioral analysis in isolated lab system. Specifically, the author focuses on analyzing malicious Windows executables. This type of malware poses a large threat to modern enterprises. Attackers often deploy malicious documents and browser-based exploits to attack Windows enterprise environment. Readers learn how to take malware inside-out using static properties analysis, behavioral analysis and code-level analysis techniques. The primary audience for this SpringerBrief is undergraduate students studying cybersecurity and researchers working in this field. Cyber security professionals that desire to learn more about malware analysis tools and techniques will also want to purchase this SpringerBrief.
This SpringerBrief presents the underlying principles of machine learning and how to deploy various deep learning tools and techniques to tackle and solve certain challenges facing the cybersecurity industry. By implementing innovative deep learning solutions, cybersecurity researchers, students and practitioners can analyze patterns and learn how to prevent cyber-attacks and respond to changing malware behavior. The knowledge and tools introduced in this brief can also assist cybersecurity teams to become more proactive in preventing threats and responding to active attacks in real time. It can reduce the amount of time spent on routine tasks and enable organizations to use their resources more strategically. In short, the knowledge and techniques provided in this brief can help make cybersecurity simpler, more proactive, less expensive and far more effective Advanced-level students in computer science studying machine learning with a cybersecurity focus will find this SpringerBrief useful as a study guide. Researchers and cybersecurity professionals focusing on the application of machine learning tools and techniques to the cybersecurity domain will also want to purchase this SpringerBrief.
The series Islamkundliche Untersuchungen was founded in 1969 by the Klaus Schwarz Verlag. Since then, it has become one of the most important venues for publications in Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies. Its more than 350 volumes cover a wide range of topics from the history, culture and societies of the Middle East and North Africa as well as neighboring regions in central, south and southeast Asia.
This book analyzes how reality television fuelled heated polemics over cultural authenticity, gender relations, and political participation in the Middle East.
A Times Higher Education Book of the Year Uprisings spread like wildfire across the Arab world from 2010 to 2012, fueled by a desire for popular sovereignty. In Tunisia, Egypt, Syria, and elsewhere, protesters flooded the streets and the media, voicing dissent through slogans, graffiti, puppetry, videos, and satire that called for the overthrow of dictators and the regimes that sustained them. Investigating what drives people to risk everything to express themselves in rebellious art, The Naked Blogger of Cairo uncovers the creative insurgency at the heart of the Arab uprisings. “A deep dive into the cultural politics of the Arab uprisings...Kraidy’s sharp insights and rich descriptions of a new Arab generation’s irrepressible creative urges will amply reward the effort. Reading Kraidy’s accounts of the politically charted cultural gambits of wired Arab youth rekindles some of the seemingly lost spirit of the early days of the Arab uprisings and offers hope for the future.” —Marc Lynch, Washington Post “The Naked Blogger of Cairo is a superb and important work not just for scholars but for anyone who cares about the relationships between art, the body, and revolution.” —Hans Rollman, PopMatters
A bracingly immediate memoir by a young man coming of age during the Syrian war, an intimate lens on the century’s bloodiest conflict, and a profound meditation on kinship, home, and freedom. A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD • “This powerful memoir, illuminated with Molly Crabapple’s extraordinary art, provides a rare lens through which we can see a region in deadly conflict.”—Bryan Stevenson, author of Just Mercy In 2011, Marwan Hisham and his two friends—fellow working-class college students Nael and Tareq—joined the first protests of the Arab Spring in Syria, in response to a recent massacre. Arm-in-arm they marched, poured Coca-Cola into one another’s eyes to blunt the effects of tear gas, ran from the security forces, and cursed the country’s president, Bashar al-Assad. It was ecstasy. A long-bottled revolution was finally erupting, and freedom from a brutal dictator seemed, at last, imminent. Five years later, the three young friends were scattered: one now an Islamist revolutionary, another dead at the hands of government soldiers, and the last, Marwan, now a journalist in Turkish exile, trying to find a way back to a homeland reduced to rubble. Marwan was there to witness and document firsthand the Syrian war, from its inception to the present. He watched from the rooftops as regime warplanes bombed soldiers; as revolutionary activist groups, for a few dreamy days, spray-painted hope on Raqqa; as his friends died or threw in their lot with Islamist fighters. He became a journalist by courageously tweeting out news from a city under siege by ISIS, the Russians, and the Americans all at once. He saw the country that ran through his veins—the country that held his hopes, dreams, and fears—be destroyed in front of him, and eventually joined the relentless stream of refugees risking their lives to escape. Illustrated with more than eighty ink drawings by Molly Crabapple that bring to life the beauty and chaos, Brothers of the Gun offers a ground-level reflection on the Syrian revolution—and how it bled into international catastrophe and global war. This is a story of pragmatism and idealism, impossible violence and repression, and, even in the midst of war, profound acts of courage, creativity, and hope. “A book of startling emotional power and intellectual depth.”—Pankaj Mishra, author of Age of Anger and From the Ruins of Empire “A revelatory and necessary read on one of the most destructive wars of our time.”—Angela Davis
I used to be weak, I would fall for anything, cry from the most simple cut. You could hurt me with the slightest touch; make me love you by just a look. But breaking me doesnt hurt me anymore. It strengthens me. This mistake only makes me stronger. I am dangerous. Olivia Williams is exactly how she described herself: dangerous. Shes got blue hair, a strange marking and strange abilities. Do you think that will stop her from living her life to the fullest? No. But what else does it bring? A battle, heartbreak and a whole load of excitement.
The Invisible Arab traces the roots of the revolutions in the Arab world. Marwan Bishara, chief policy analyst of Al Jazeera English and the anchor of the program "Empire", combines on-the-ground reporting, extensive research and scholarship, and political commentary in this book on the complex influences that made the revolutions possible. Bishara argues that the inclusive, pluralistic nationalism that motivated the revolutions are indispensable to their long-term success. The Invisible Arab is a voyage in time from the Arab world's 'liberation generation' through the 'defeated' and 'lost generations', arriving at today's 'miracle generation'. Bishara unpacks how this new generation, long seen as a demographic bomb, has proved to be the agent of progress, unity and freedom. It has in turn used social networks to mobilize for social justice. Bishara discusses how Israel, oil, terrorism and radical Islam have affected the interior identity of the region as well as Western projections upon it. Protection of Israel, Western imperial ambition, a thirst for oil, and fear of radicalism have caused many Western regimes and media to characterize Arab countries and people as unreceptive to democracy or progress. These ideas are as one-dimensional as they are foolhardy. Bishara argues that the Arab revolutions present a great window of opportunity for reinventing and improving Arab ties with the rest of the world -- notably the West -- on the basis of mutual respect and mutual interest. The revolutions will be judged by how they realize freedom and justice, and how they can pave the way for reconciling and accommodating nationalism and Islam with democracy. Bishara argues that these pillars -- liberty and justice reconciled with religion and nationalism, form the bedrock that will allow stability and progress to flourish in the Arab world and beyond.
Muasher, a prominent Jordanian diplomat, recounts the behind-the-scenes details of diplomatic ventures over the past two decades, including such recent undertakings as the Arab Peace Initiative and the Middle East Road Map.
This important book is not about immediate events or policies or responses to the Arab Spring. Instead, it takes a long, judicious view of political change in the Arab world, beginning with the first Awakening in the nineteenth century and extending into future decades when—if the dream is realized—a new Arab world defined by pluralism and tolerance will emerge.div /DIVdivMarwan Muasher, former foreign minister of Jordan, asserts that all sides—the United States, Europe, Israel, and Arab governments alike—were deeply misguided in their thinking about Arab politics and society when the turmoil of the Arab Spring erupted. He explains the causes of the unrest, tracing them back to the first Arab Awakening, and warns of the forces today that threaten the success of the Second Arab Awakening, ignited in December 2010. Hope rests with the new generation and its commitment to tolerance, diversity, the peaceful rotation of power, and inclusive economic growth, Muasher maintains. He calls on the West to rethink political Islam and the Arab-Israeli conflict, and he discusses steps all parties can take to encourage positive state-building in the freshly unsettled Arab world./DIV
Through wars, the collapse of empires, changing views on the role of women in society, economic crises, and more, Lebanese American University has persevered for almost 200 years. From the first school for girls in the Ottoman Empire to an internationally ranked co-ed university serving over 8500 students, what is now Lebanese American University has experienced the excitement and challenges of a dynamic yet tumultuous region. First known as the American Junior College for Women, the institution moved through many iterations before becoming a full-fledged university in the 1980s. Bringing together the best in American-style higher education with a commitment to its Arab heritage, the multi-campus university champions the development of the whole person to be active citizens in the building of their communities and nations. Today LAU produces cutting-edge research while innovating teaching across the disciplines and remaining a force in the creative arts. Iskandar’s book chronicles the highs and lows of a historic institution that has had an outsized impact on the people and development of Lebanon, the Arab World, and beyond. Drawing on personal recollections, geopolitical analysis, and institutional history, From College to University: The Meteoric Rise of LAU is a gripping account of how a commitment to the importance of broadly educated women and men to become the leaders of tomorrow can—and indeed, does—make a difference.
In recent years, Arab television has undergone a dramatic and profound transformation from terrestrial, government-owned, national channels to satellite, privately owned, transnational networks. The latter is the Arab television that matters today, economically, socially and politically. The resulting pan-Arab industry is vibrant, diverse, and fluid - very different, the authors of this major new study argue, from the prevailing view in the West, which focuses only on the al-Jazeera network. Based on a wealth of primary Arabic language sources, interviews with Arab television executives, and the authors' personal and professional experience with the industry, Arab Television Industries tells the story of that transformation, featuring compelling portraits of major players and institutions, and captures dominant trends in the industry. Readers learn how the transformation of Arab television came to be, the different kinds of channels, how programs are made and promoted, and how they are regulated. Throughout, the analysis focuses on the interaction of the television industry with Arab politics, business, societies and cultures.
Sharon's election. The Second Intifada. Suicide bombings. Israel's reoccupation of the West Bank. President Bush's demand that Palestinians choose a new leadership. In this new edition, Marwan Bishara, a leading Palestinian commentator, analyses the situation since the failed Oslo Accords and argues that peace without justice is impossible. Israel may not yet recognise this fact, but one day it will have to - in the same way as de Klerk a decade ago had to do in apartheid South Africa.
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