Kingpin: How One Hacker Took Over The Billion Dollar Cybercrime Underground

Spam Nation: The Inside Story of Organized Cybercrime - from Global Epidemic to Your Front Door

Brian Krebs · 256 pages

Explores "the criminal masterminds driving some of the biggest spam and hacker operations targeting Americans and their bank accounts. Tracing the rise, fall, and alarming resurrection of the digital mafia behind the two largest spam pharmacies--and countless viruses, phishing, and spyware attacks--he delivers the first definitive narrative of the global spam problem and its threat to consumers ev

The Missing Cryptoqueen: The Billion Dollar Cryptocurrency Con and the Woman Who Got Away with It

Jamie Bartlett · 320 pages

American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road

Nick Bilton · 333 pages

In 2011, a twenty-six-year-old libertarian programmer named Ross Ulbricht launched the ultimate free market: the Silk Road, a clandestine Web site hosted on the Dark Web where anyone could trade anything—drugs, hacking software, forged passports, counterfeit cash, poisons—free of the government’s watchful eye. It wasn’t long before the media got wind of the new Web site where anyone—not just

DarkMarket: Cyberthieves, Cybercops and You

Misha Glenny · 296 pages

This title explores the dangers of living in a digital, globalized society. The author explores the three fundamental threats facing us in the 21st century: cyber crime, cyber warfare and cyber industrial espionage.

Provenance: How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art

Laney Salisbury, Aly Sujo · 339 pages

A tautly paced investigation of one the 20th century's most audacious art frauds, which generated hundreds of forgeries—many of them still hanging in prominent museums and private collections todayProvenance is the extraordinary narrative of one of the most far-reaching and elaborate deceptions in art history. Investigative reporters Laney Salisbury and Aly Sujo brilliantly recount the tale of a g

Masters of Deception: The Gang That Ruled Cyberspace

Michelle Slatalla, Joshua Quittner · 225 pages

From the bedroom terminals of teenagers isolated from their peers by their hyperactive intellects to the nerve center of a nationwide long-distance phone company infiltrated by a hacker's hand, Masters of Deception offers an unprecedented tour of the murkiest reaches of the electronic frontier and a trenchant blow-by-blow chronicle of the most notorious gang war in cyberspace. In 1989, Paul Stira

Cyberpunk: Outlaws and Hackers on the Computer Frontier, Revised

Katie Hafner, John Markoff · 382 pages

A journey through the computer underground, a world of high-tech rebels and outlaws.

Black Edge: Inside Information, Dirty Money, and the Quest to Bring Down the Most Wanted Man on Wall Street

Sheelah Kolhatkar · 368 pages

"Steven A. Cohen is a Wall Street legend. Born into a middle class family in a decidedly upper class suburb on Long Island, he was unpopular in high school and unlucky with girls. Then he went off to Wharton, and in 1992 launched the hedge fund SAC Capital, which grew into a $15 billion empire. He cultivated an air of mystery and reclusiveness--at one point, owned the copyright to almost every pic

Underground: Tales of Hacking, Madness, and Obsession on the Electronic Frontier

Suelette Dreyfus · 496 pages

The Wizard of Lies

Diana B. Henriques · 448 pages

The inside story of Bernie Madoff and his $65 billion Ponzi scheme, with surprising and shocking new details from Madoff himself. Who is Bernie Madoff, and how did he pull off the biggest Ponzi scheme in history? These questions have fascinated people ever since the news broke about the respected New York financier who swindled his friends, relatives, and other investors out of $65 billion through

The Mormon Murders

Steven Naifeh, Gregory White Smith · 576 pages

Den of Thieves

James B. Stewart · 589 pages

How four men--Michael Milken, Ivan Boesky, Martin Siegel, Dennis Levine--"nearly destroyed Wall Street ... how they made billions and how they got caught."

Octopus: Sam Israel, the Secret Market, and Wall Street's Wildest Con

Guy Lawson · 368 pages

The Billionaire's Apprentice: The Rise of The Indian-American Elite and The Fall of The Galleon Hedge Fund

Anita Raghavan · 493 pages

Conspiracy of Fools: A True Story

Kurt Eichenwald · 776 pages

Blind Faith

Joe McGinniss · 448 pages

The Marshalls were the model family of Tom’s River, New Jersey, living the American dream of all that money could buy. Rob Marshall was the big breadwinner, king of the country club set. Maria Marshall was his stunningly beautiful wife and the perfect mom to their three great kids. Then one night Rob, his head bloodied, reported Maria had been brutally slain. Sympathy poured in—until disquieti

The Art of Intrusion: The Real Stories Behind the Exploits of Hackers, Intruders & Deceivers

Kevin D. Mitnick · 279 pages

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 s

Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World's Most Wanted Hacker

Kevin D. Mitnick, William L. Simon, Steve Wozniak · 413 pages

Kevin Mitnick was the most elusive computer break-in artist in history. He accessed computers and networks at the world's biggest companies -- and however fast the authorities were, Mitnick was faster, sprinting through phone switches, computer systems, and cellular networks. He spent years skipping through cyberspace, always three steps ahead and labeled unstoppable. But for Kevin, hacking wasn't

We Are Anonymous: Inside the Hacker World of LulzSec Anonymous

Parmy Olson

*We Are Anonymous* is the first full account of how a loosely assembled group of hackers scattered across the globe formed a new kind of insurgency, seized headlines, and tortured the feds -- and the ultimate betrayal that would eventually bring them down. Parmy Olson goes behind the headlines and into the world of Anonymous and LulzSec with unprecedented access, drawing upon hundreds of conversat

The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier

Bruce Sterling · 314 pages

This Machine Kills Secrets: How WikiLeakers, Cypherpunks, and Hacktivists Aim to Free the World's Information

Andy Greenberg · 384 pages

Who Are The Cypherpunks? This is the unauthorized telling of the revolutionary cryptography story behind the motion picture The Fifth Estate in theatres this October, and We Steal Secrets: The Story of Wikileaks, a documentary out now. WikiLeaks brought to light a new form of whistleblowing, using powerful cryptographic code to hide leakers’ identities while they spill the private data of

Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt

Michael Lewis · 320 pages

Argues that post-crisis Wall Street continues to be controlled by large banks and explains how a small, diverse group of Wall Street men have banded together to reform the financial markets.

@War: The Rise of the Military-Internet Complex

Shane Harris · 288 pages

The United States military now views cyberspace as the "fifth domain" of warfare, alongside land, air, sea, and space. The Pentagon, the National Security Agency, and the CIA field teams of hackers who launch cyber strikes against enemy targets--and amass staggering quantities of personal information on all of us. These same virtual warriors, along with a growing band of private-sector counterpart

Future Crimes: Everything Is Connected, Everyone Is Vulnerable, and What We Can Do About It

Marc Goodman · 392 pages

An FBI futurist and senior advisor to Interpol analyzes the digital underground to reveal the alarming ways criminals, corporations and countries are using emerging technologies to target individuals and wage war.