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Fancy Bear goes phishing : the dark history of the information age, in five extraordinary hacks

Shapiro, Scott J.2023
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"Why is the internet so insecure? How do hackers exploit its vulnerabilities? Fancy Bear Goes Phishing tells the stories of five great hacks, their origins, motivations and consequences. As well as Fancy Bear, Robert Morris and Dark Avenger, we meet Cameron Lacroix, a sixteen-year-old from South Boston, who hacked Paris Hilton's cell phone because he wanted to be famous and Paras Jha, a Rutgers undergraduate, who built a giant botnet designed to get him out of his calculus exam and disrupt the online game Minecraft, but which almost destroyed the internet in the process. Scott Shapiro's five stories demonstrate that computer hacking is not just a tale of technology, but of human beings. Yet as Shapiro shows, hackers do not just abuse computer code - they exploit the philosophical principles of computation- the very features that make computers possible also make hacking possible. He explains how our information society works, the ways our data is stored and manipulated, and why it is so subject to exploitation. Both intellectual romp and dramatic true-crime narrative, Fancy Bear Goes Phishing exposes the secrets of the digital age."--Dust jacket.
Main title:
Fancy Bear goes phishing : the dark history of the information age, in five extraordinary hacks / Scott J. Shapiro.
Author:
Shapiro, Scott J., author
Work:
Fancy Bear goes phishing : the dark history of the information age, in five extraordinary hacks
Imprint:
[London] : Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Books, 2023.©20
Collation:
420 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780241461969 (hbk)9780241461969 (hbk)9780241461969 (hardback)
Dewey class:
364.168005.8
LC class:
HV6773
Language:
English
Related title:
Fancy Bear Goes Phishing [electronic resource] : The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacks
Subject:
Hacking -- Case studiesPhishing -- Case studiesInternet -- Security measuresCase studies
BRN:
788447
Bookmark link:
https://librarysearch.melbourne.vic.gov.au/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/OPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=788447
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