Kevin Poulsen Kingpin 2011 Retail EPUB eBook-BitBook torrent

| Kingpin |
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| How one Hacker took over the Billion-Dollar Cybercrime Underground |
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| DATE: 2012-06-04 SIZE: 2,01MB DISKS: 01_______4,77MB PAGES: |
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| PUBLISHER: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group GENRE: Technology & Engineering
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| AUTHOR: Kevin Poulsen |
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| FORMAT: EPUB PROTECTION: DRM EDITION: |
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| URL: http://is_gd/LMeBq9 |
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| LANGUAGE: English ISBN: 978-0-307-58870-8 |
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: 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. :
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: The word spread through the hacking underground like some unstoppable new :
: virus: Someone--some brilliant, audacious crook--had just staged a hostile :
: takeover of an online criminal network that siphoned billions of dollars :
: from the US economy. :
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: The FBI rushed to launch an ambitious undercover operation aimed at :
: tracking down this new kingpin; other agencies around the world deployed :
: dozens of moles and double agents. Together, the cybercops lured numerous :
: unsuspecting hackers into their clutches.... Yet at every turn, their :
: main quarry displayed an uncanny ability to sniff out their snitches and :
: see through their plots. :
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: The culprit they sought was the most unlikely of criminals: a brilliant :
: programmer with a hippie ethic and a supervillain's double identity. As :
: prominent "white-hat" hacker Max "Vision" Butler, he was a celebrity :
: throughout the programming world, even serving as a consultant to the FBI. :
: But as the black-hat "Iceman," he found in the world of data theft an :
: irresistible opportunity to test his outsized abilities. He infiltrated :
: thousands of computers around the country, sucking down millions of credit :
: card numbers at will. He effortlessly hacked his fellow hackers, stealing :
: their ill-gotten gains from under their noses. Together with a :
: smooth-talking con artist, he ran a massive real-world crime ring. :
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: And for years, he did it all with seeming impunity, even as countless :
: rivals ran afoul of police. :
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: Yet as he watched the fraudsters around him squabble, their ranks riddled :
: with infiltrators, their methods inefficient, he began to see in their :
: dysfunction the ultimate challenge: He would stage his coup and fix what :
: was broken, run things as they should be run--even if it meant painting a :
: bull's-eye on his forehead. :
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: Through the story of this criminal's remarkable rise, and of law :
: enforcement's quest to track him down, Kingpin lays bare the workings of a :
: silent crime wave still affecting millions of Americans. In these pages, we:
: are ushered into vast online-fraud supermarkets stocked with credit card :
: numbers, counterfeit checks, hacked bank accounts, dead drops, and fake :
: passports. We learn the workings of the numerous hacks--browser exploits, :
: phishing attacks, Trojan horses, and much more--these fraudsters use to ply:
: their trade, and trace the complex routes by which they turn stolen data :
: into millions of dollars. And thanks to Poulsen's remarkable access to both:
: cops and criminals, we step inside the quiet, desperate arms race that law :
: enforcement continues to fight with these scammers today. :
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: Ultimately, Kingpin is a journey into an underworld of startling scope and :
: power, one in which ordinary American teenagers work hand in hand with :
: murderous Russian mobsters and where a simple Wi-Fi connection can unleash :
: a torrent of gold worth millions. :