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Fancy Bear Goes Phishing: The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacks Audiobook by Scott Shapiro
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ID: 620563
Title: Fancy Bear Goes Phishing: The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacks
Author: Scott Shapiro
Narrator: Jonathan Todd Ross
Format: Unabridged
Length: 15:09:10
Language: English
Release date: 05-23-23
Publisher: PGRH UK
Genres: Non-Fiction, True Crime, Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Science & Technology, Computers, Technology & Engineering
Summary:
Brought to you by Penguin.
It's a signal paradox of our times that we live in an information society but do not know how it works. And without understanding how our information is stored, used and protected, we are vulnerable to having it exploited. In Fancy Bear Goes Phishing, Scott Shapiro exposes the secrets of the digital age. With lucidity and wit, he establishes that cybercrime has less to do with defective programming than with the faulty wiring of our psyches and society. And because hacking is a human story, he tells the fascinating tales of perpetrators including Robert Morris Jr, the graduate student who accidentally crashed the internet in the 1980s, and the Bulgarian 'Dark Avenger' who invented the first mutating computer-virus engine. We also meet a sixteen-year-old from South Boston who took control of Paris Hilton's cell phone and the Russian intelligence officers who sought to take control of a US election, among others.
In telling their stories, Shapiro exposes the hackers' tool kits and gives fresh answers to vital questions: why is the internet so vulnerable? What can we do in response? The result is a lively and original account of the future of hacking, espionage and war, and of how to live in an era of cybercrime.
©2023 Scott Shapiro (P)2023 Penguin Audio
Contact: [email protected]
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By hotaudiobook.comListen to this audiobook in full for free on https://hotaudiobook.com/free
ID: 620563
Title: Fancy Bear Goes Phishing: The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacks
Author: Scott Shapiro
Narrator: Jonathan Todd Ross
Format: Unabridged
Length: 15:09:10
Language: English
Release date: 05-23-23
Publisher: PGRH UK
Genres: Non-Fiction, True Crime, Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Science & Technology, Computers, Technology & Engineering
Summary:
Brought to you by Penguin.
It's a signal paradox of our times that we live in an information society but do not know how it works. And without understanding how our information is stored, used and protected, we are vulnerable to having it exploited. In Fancy Bear Goes Phishing, Scott Shapiro exposes the secrets of the digital age. With lucidity and wit, he establishes that cybercrime has less to do with defective programming than with the faulty wiring of our psyches and society. And because hacking is a human story, he tells the fascinating tales of perpetrators including Robert Morris Jr, the graduate student who accidentally crashed the internet in the 1980s, and the Bulgarian 'Dark Avenger' who invented the first mutating computer-virus engine. We also meet a sixteen-year-old from South Boston who took control of Paris Hilton's cell phone and the Russian intelligence officers who sought to take control of a US election, among others.
In telling their stories, Shapiro exposes the hackers' tool kits and gives fresh answers to vital questions: why is the internet so vulnerable? What can we do in response? The result is a lively and original account of the future of hacking, espionage and war, and of how to live in an era of cybercrime.
©2023 Scott Shapiro (P)2023 Penguin Audio
Contact: [email protected]