Wiley-Blackwell

Hacker extraordinaire Kevin Mitnick delivers the explosive
encore to his bestselling The Art of Deception

Kevin Mitnick, the world's most celebrated hacker, now devotes his
life to helping businesses and governments combat data thieves,
cybervandals, and other malicious computer intruders. In his
bestselling The Art of Deception, Mitnick presented fictionalized
case studies that illustrated how savvy computer crackers use
"social engineering" to compromise even the most technically secure
computer systems. Now, in his new book, Mitnick goes one step
further, offering hair-raising stories of real-life computer
break-ins-and showing how the victims could have prevented them.
Mitnick's reputation within the hacker community gave him unique
credibility with the perpetrators of these crimes, who freely
shared their stories with him-and whose exploits Mitnick now
reveals in detail for the first time, including:

* A group of friends who won nearly a million dollars in Las
Vegas by reverse-engineering slot machines

* Two teenagers who were persuaded by terrorists to hack into the
Lockheed Martin computer systems

* Two convicts who joined forces to become hackers inside a Texas
prison

* A "Robin Hood" hacker who penetrated the computer systems of
many prominent companies-andthen told them how he gained
access

With riveting "you are there" descriptions of real computer
break-ins, indispensable tips on countermeasures security
professionals need to implement now, and Mitnick's own acerbic
commentary on the crimes he describes, this book is sure to reach a
wide audience-and attract the attention of both law enforcement
agencies and the media.

This volume serves as a multidimensional perspective of welding practices in Industry 5.0 from the perspective of automation, digitization, digital twins, cobots, virtual reality, augmented reality, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and IoT ranging from rudiments to advanced applications.

This book introduces the concept of Industry 5.0 in welding technologies, where the human brain collaborates with robots to achieve rapid productivity and economic efficiency. It presents the latest information on adapting and integrating Industry 5.0 in welding industries through critical constituents such as artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), Internet of Things (IoT), digital twin, augmented and virtual reality (AR & VR), and collaborative robots (Cobots), towards intelligent welding systems. The chapter authors have comprehensively addressed the issues related to welding industries such as a shortage of welders, challenges in critical applications, creating defect-free and quality products through real-time monitoring, feedback systems, and in situ adjustments, etc. The utilization of cobots in welding technology is addressed in real-world problems to move towards a green welding environment (i.e., minimal fumes with less shielding gas) and thereby, less energy consumption. Two or more welding processes are combined to form a hybrid process where the compatibility of existing materials and novel materials can be used in 3D, 4D, and 5D printing of complex geometries.

Audience

Engineering research scholars, industry welding, and additive manufacturing groups. A diverse group of industries will be interested in this book, such as medical, automotive, construction, pipeline, shipping, aerospace, etc.

Get ready to run for--and win--that local election!

In the land of opportunity, just about anyone who qualifies as an elector can seek public office. Some do it on a whim, some are urged to run, and some want to use their time and talents to make a difference in their local community.

If you want to know how to prepare for a run, which steps to take beforehand, and how the process goes from announcement to campaigning to election day to the swearing-in ceremony--this book has you covered.

* Find out what it's like to run for local office as a first-time candidate

* Explore the introspection required and the study necessary to make such a run effective

* Deal with marketing, fundraising, interacting with the public, and dealing with opponents

* Encourage and help others to make a run for local office

Though only one person ultimately wins a seat, nobody does it without a wide network of support. Running For Local Office For Dummies is your ticket to navigating every step on the road to winning that election.

CDMA is a form of multiplexing, which allows numerous signals to occupy a single transmission channel, optimising the use of available bandwidth.  Multiplexing is sending multiple signals or streams of information on a carrier at the same time in the form of a single, complex signal and then recovering the separate signals at the receiving end.

Multi-Carrier (MC) CDMA is a combined technique of Direct Sequence (DS) CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) and OFDM techniques.  It applies spreading sequences in the frequency domain.

Wireless communications has witnessed a tremendous growth during the past decade and further spectacular enabling technology advances are expected in an effort to render ubiquitous wireless connectivity a reality.

This technical in-depth book is unique in its detailed exposure of OFDM, MIMO-OFDM and MC-CDMA.  A further attraction of the joint treatment of these topics is that it allows the reader to view their design trade-offs in a comparative context.

Divided into three main parts:

Part I provides a detailed exposure of OFDM designed for employment in various applications

Part II is another design alternative applicable in the context of OFDM systems where the channel quality fluctuations observed are averaged out with the aid of frequency-domain spreading codes, which leads to the concept of MC-CDMA

Part III discusses how to employ multiple antennas at the base station for the sake of supporting multiple users in the uplink

• Portrays the entire body of knowledge currently available on OFDM
• Provides the first complete treatment of OFDM, MIMO(Multiple Input Multiple Output)-OFDM and MC-CDMA
• Considers the benefits of channel coding and space time coding in the context of various application examples and features numerous complete system design examples
• Converts the lessons of Shannon's information theory into design principles applicable to practical wireless systems
• Combines the benefits of a textbook with a research monograph where the depth of discussions progressively increase throughout the book

This all-encompassing self-contained treatment will appeal to researchers, postgraduate students and academics, practising research and development engineers working for wireless communications and computer networking companies and senior undergraduate students and technical managers.

This book covers all aspects of the different classes of nanomaterials - from synthesis to application. It investigates in detail the use and feasibility of developing nanocomposites with these nanomaterials as reinforcements. The book encompasses synthesis and properties of cellulose nanofibers, bacterial nanocellulose, carbon nanotubes / nanofibers, graphene, nanodiamonds, nanoclays, inorganic nanomaterials and their nanocomposites for high-end applications such as electronic devices, energy storage, structural and packaging. The book also provides insight into various modification techniques for improving the functionality of nanomaterials apart from their compatibility with the base matrix.