Virtual Honeypots - From Botnet Tracking to Intrusion Detection

– Dr. Craig S. Wright (GSE), Asia Pacific Director at Global Institute for Cyber Security + Research.

“It’s like a symphony meeting an encyclopedia meeting a spy novel.”

–Michael Ford, Corero Network Security

On the Internet, every action leaves a mark–in routers, firewalls, web proxies, and within network traffic itself. When a hacker breaks into a bank, or an insider smuggles secrets to a competitor, evidence of the crime is always left behind.

Learn to recognize hackers’ tracks and uncover network-based evidence in Network Forensics: Tracking Hackers through Cyberspace. Carve suspicious email attachments from packet captures. Use flow records to track an intruder as he pivots through the network. Analyze a real-world wireless encryption-cracking attack (and then crack the key yourself). Reconstruct a suspect’s web surfing history–and cached web pages, too–from a web proxy. Uncover DNS-tunneled traffic. Dissect the Operation Aurora exploit, caught on the wire.

Mambo, a rock star from the '80s, wants a sabbatical break from Luna Moth, his wife—a former prostitute— after more than 20 years of marriage.

     AvA, their daughter, has left home to pursuit her career in law, so they pretend to go back to their offices.

     But the music world has changed, and it does not respond to Mambo's guitar harmony or his band.

     For Luna Moth, the world is a different stage.

     In fact, her sensuality shocks the world which once maltreated her, and she now reigns as a top model, thanks to her protector, a writer who sold the story of her life to a reality show.
     Luna meets with Mambo before the allotted year is up to tell him she has decided not to go back to him. Mambo is devastated by her decision.

However, Luna Moth cherishes her years next to Mambo, and her heart will show him, and the world, the caliber she is made of.

We all have those voices in our head, the quiet sounds of conscience that leaves us most days with silent reminders. In some cases though, it could be, "Pickletwit."

Pickletwit is the evil fairy lying dormant under the letter, "P" on any device with a keypad. Awaken her from her slumber, and you will soon know her wrath. Anyone can fall victim to the bad imp, and once she enters your brain door she can make you do terrible things.

The introductory novella is Volume One—Lillibeth. When a young girl witnesses the kidnapping of her best friend at the age of nine-years-old, the traumatic event leaves Lillibeth to suffer with a personality disorder. Pickletwit loves victims with existing problems; it makes her job so much easier. When Lillibeth wakens Pickletwit from her hibernation under the keyboard of her computer, the nano-sized fairy flits through her eye, follows her optic nerve, and ends up in her brain. Soon, Pickletwit becomes the voice in her head, and all the counseling and treatment does little to help Lillibeth. Pickletwit has other plans for her. Plans, that include killing.

Detective Lance Narwall opens a cold case in hopes of solving the kidnapping of Lillibeth’s best friend nearly twenty-years ago. He soon finds himself on the trail of a serial killing sociopath who’s every move is now controlled by the evil fairy inside her head known as Pickletwit.

A chilling, heart-pounding fantasy sure to keep you on the edge of your seat with each turn of a page, as you pray the thoughts in your head, are your own, and not that of, “Pickletwit.”
 

When Jessie and her friend Pete sneak into August Erasmus’s lab, they mean to rescue his abused animals. Instead they find a boy in a cage. Only one thing to do: they set him free, and Jessie promises to hide him.

The strange, pale boy is August’s son, Lucan. He knows he’s strange. He can’t bear the sun, sleeps by day, bursts with energy by night, and can only digest raw blood. Like August, he has the family disease, that’s all. Nothing sinister about it.

But sinister does describe August’s lizard-like hounds, and the grey-faced servant who haunts Jessie’s dreams about her parents’ death.

None of that matters when she runs with Lucan under the moon. Her senses sharpen. Energy sizzles through her body. But deep down, a terrible hunger grows. She recalls how her blood mixed with Lucan’s during the escape, when their cut hands clasped.

Lucan finally confronts August, but who wins? And Jessie, fighting to stay human, has only Pete’s loyalty and her own untested powers to pit against the oldest, deadliest enemy of all.

Jane and Salt — four years of Happily Ever After
Sir Antony Templestowe — four years of Exile
Lady Caroline — four years of Heartache
Diana St. John — four years plotting Revenge
The time has come...

★★★★★  Night Owl Reviews Top Pick
Lucinda Brant weaves a rather terrifying tale of the darkest deception planned to the most minor detail and brilliantly has us uncovering the plot right along with the characters... this chilling story mixes insanity with brilliance, a deadly combination guaranteed to keep you on the edge of your seats, turning pages and shaking your heads... amazing, riveting and extraordinary historical romance at its very best. — Swurman

★★★★★  Readers' Favorite Reviews
What a pleasure to revisit 'old friends' in this sequel... the characters themselves tug at the heartstrings with their intense feelings: love, anguish, desire, and drama abound... The richness of the prose and the attention to all that drives the story make this a wonderful read. Although readers can enjoy the book as a stand-alone, I would recommend reading SALT BRIDE first to fully appreciate the poignant aspect of the earl and his bride's love story from the start. Highly recommended. — Fiona Ingram

So much can go so wrong so fast when confusion, fear and precariousness pull a trigger! Murder at a backwoods roadhouse sets two frightened coerced teenagers on the lam from the cops and a neo-nazi gunrunner who's big score had just been thwarted... but worse still, there is also a psychotic killer on their trail who believes he is an emissary for a diety from a realm called Pleroma and to fulfill his dark agenda, he needs to catch up with these two young fugitives! As Temple and Jimmy run for their lives and against time, something much more menacing begins to loom over all of mankind in this wild, savage and genre-bending novel. Gracelorn is part crime story and part  supernatural  thriller. The devastating and unexpected climax serves as the prequel to the critically acclaimed apocalyptic thriller, The Gathering of the Aspects !