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Include books by the same authorSpam 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
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
Kingpin: How One Hacker Took Over The Billion Dollar Cybercrime Underground
Kevin Poulsen · 266 pages
Former hacker Kevin Poulsen has, over the past decade, built a reputation as one of the top investigative reporters on the cybercrime beat. In Kingpin, he pours his unmatched access and expertise into book form for the first time, delivering a gripping cat-and-mouse narrative -- and an unprecedented view into the twenty-first century's signature form of organized crime. The word spread through the
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
Fatal System Error: The Hunt for the New Crime Lords Who are Bringing Down the Internet
Joseph Menn · 287 pages
In this disquieting cyber thriller, Joseph Menn takes readers into the murky hacker underground, traveling the globe from San Francisco to Costa Rica and London to Russia. His guides are California surfer and computer whiz Barrett Lyon and a fearless British high-tech agent. Through these heroes, Menn shows the evolution of cyber-crime from small-time thieving to sophisticated, organized gangs, wh
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.
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
The Dark Net: Inside the Digital Underworld
Jamie Bartlett
Underground: Tales of Hacking, Madness, and Obsession on the Electronic Frontier
Suelette Dreyfus · 496 pages
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
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.
ZeroZeroZero
Roberto Saviano · 455 pages
A truly harrowing and groundbreaking synthesis of intimate literary narrative and geopolitical analysis of one of the most powerful dark forces in our economy. Saviano tracks the shift in the cocaine trade's axis of power, from Colombia to Mexico, and relates how the Latin American cartels and gangs have forged alliances, first with the Italian crime syndicates, then with the Russians, Africans, a
Tulia: Race, Cocaine, and Corruption in a Small Texas Town
Nate Blakeslee · 450 pages
Arms and the Dudes: How Three Stoners from Miami Beach Became the Most Unlikely Gunrunners in History
Guy Lawson · 268 pages
The page-turning, inside account of how two kids from Florida became big-time weapons traders--and how the US government turned on them. In January of 2007, two young stoners from Miami Beach--one a ninth grade dropout, the other a licensed masseur--won a $300 million Department of Defense contract to supply ammunition to the Afghanistan military. Incredibly, instead of fulfilling the order with h
Lights Out: A Cyberattack, A Nation Unprepared, Surviving the Aftermath
Ted Koppel · 289 pages
Imagine a blackout lasting not days, but weeks or months. Tens of millions of people over several states are affected. For those without access to a generator, there is no running water, no sewage, no refrigeration or light. Food and medical supplies are dwindling. Devices we rely on have gone dark. Banks no longer function, looting is widespread, and law and order are being tested as never before
WikiLeaks: Inside Julian Assange's War on Secrecy
David Leigh, Luke Harding · 339 pages
Traces the history of the online organization WikiLeaks, which released thousands of previously secret or classified documents from numerous government agencies, and examines its impact on world politics and freedom of information.
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
The Woman Who Wasn't There: The True Story of an Incredible Deception
Robin Gaby Fisher, Angelo J. Guglielmo Jr. · 304 pages
A Very Expensive Poison: The Definitive Story of the Murder of Litvinenko and Russia's War with the West
Luke Harding · 424 pages
Inside WikiLeaks: My Time with Julian Assange at the World's Most Dangerous Website
Daniel Domscheit-Berg · 282 pages
Details the inner workings of the organization the author was a former spokesman for, revealing the evolution, finances, and inner tensions from the first meeting with Julian Assange to his withdrawal from Wikileaks.
Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town
Jon Krakauer · 391 pages
One of Us: The Story of Anders Breivik and the Massacre in Norway
Asne Seierstad · 530 pages
"On July 22, 2011, Anders Behring Breivik detonated a bomb outside the Norwegian prime minister's office in central Oslo, killing eight people. He then proceeded to a youth camp on the wooded island of Utøya, where he killed sixty-nine more, most of them teenage members of the country's governing Labour Party. In [this book], the journalist Åsne Seierstad tells the story of this terrible day and i
Columbine
Dave Cullen · 417 pages
On April 20, 1999, two boys left an indelible stamp on the American psyche. Their goal was simple: to blow up their school, Oklahoma-City style, and to leave "a lasting impression on the world." Their bombs failed, but the ensuing shooting defined a new era of school violence-irrevocably branding every subsequent shooting "another Columbine." When we think of Columbine, we think of the Trench Coat
No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State
Glenn Greenwald · 272 pages
Glenn Greenwald's No Place to Hide is the story of one of the greatest national security leaks in US history. In June 2013, reporter and political commentator Glenn Greenwald published a series of reports in the Guardian which rocked the world. The reports revealed shocking truths about the extent to which the National Security Agency had been gathering information about US citizens and intercepti