Crimedotcom : from viruses to vote rigging, how hacking went global

Summary: 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

Record details

ISBN: 1789144434
ISBN: 9781789144437
Physical Description: print
341 pages ; 20 cm
Publisher: London, UK : Reaktion Books, 2021
Copyright: ©2020

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

Meet the hackers -- Fall of the Berlin firewall -- Ocean's 11 dot com -- Digital extortion -- Your data for sale -- Beyond the dark web -- The Internet hate machine -- Lights out -- Weaponizing data -- Hack the vote.