The Watchman: The Twisted Life and Crimes of Serial Hacker Kevin Poulsen by Jonathan Littman My rating: 5 of 5 stars I’ve long heard about Kevin Poulsen, but didn’t know as much about him as I did about another early hacker, Kevin Mitnick, and I wanted to learn more, so this book was great. And …
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Fatal System Error: The Hunt for the New Crime Lords Who are Bringing Down the Internet by Joseph Menn My rating: 3 of 5 stars Fatal System Error is an absolutely scary as shit, totally frightening book about today’s hackers and their ties to the Russian mob and how billions of US dollars in terms …
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The Fugitive Game: Online with Kevin Mitnick by Jonathan Littman My rating: 5 of 5 stars I realized as I was reading this that I had read this before -- 20 years ago when it was first published. I had forgotten that, but it came back to me as I read it again. And I …
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Kingpin: How One Hacker Took Over the Billion-Dollar Cybercrime Underground by Kevin Poulsen My rating: 5 of 5 stars Kingpin is a fascinating and utterly frightening account of one hacker/carder who essentially took on the world and took over the billion dollar carding empire -- until the FBI finally got him. Max “Vision” Butler was …
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