Crime Dot Com : From Viruses to Vote Rigging, How Hacking Went Global

White, Geoff

ISBN 10: 1789144434 / ISBN 13: 9781789144437

Published by Reaktion Books, Limited, 2021

About this Item

Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Crime Dot Com : From Viruses to Vote Rigging, How Hacking Went Global
• Publisher: Reaktion Books, Limited
• Publication Date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1789144434
• ISBN 13: 9781789144437
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 0.752 pounds

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Synopsis

From Anonymous to the Dark Web, a dizzying account of hacking—past, present, and future.

“Brilliantly researched and written.”—Jon Snow, Channel 4 News
 
“A comprehensive and intelligible account of the elusive world of hacking and cybercrime over the last two decades. . . . Lively, insightful, and, often, alarming.”—Ewen MacAskill, Guardian

On May 4, 2000, an email that read “kindly check the attached LOVELETTER” was sent from a computer in the Philippines. Attached was a virus, the Love Bug, and within days it had been circulated across the globe, paralyzing banks, broadcasters, and businesses in its wake, and extending as far as the UK Parliament and, reportedly, the Pentagon. The outbreak presaged a new era of online mayhem: the age of Crime Dot Com. In this book, investigative journalist Geoff White charts the astonishing development of hacking, from its conception in the United States’ hippy tech community in the 1970s, through its childhood among the ruins of the Eastern Bloc, to its coming of age as one of the most dangerous and pervasive threats to our connected world. He takes us inside the workings of real-life cybercrimes, drawing on interviews with those behind the most devastating hacks and revealing how the tactics employed by high-tech crooks to make millions are being harnessed by nation states to target voters, cripple power networks, and even prepare for cyber-war. From Anonymous to the Dark Web, Ashley Madison to election rigging, Crime Dot Com is a thrilling, dizzying, and terrifying account of hacking, past and present, what the future has in store, and how we might protect ourselves from it.

About the Author

Geoff White is an investigative journalist who has covered technology for numerous outlets, including the BBC and Channel 4 News (UK).