| Fatal System Error |  | Author: Joseph Menn
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 243,117
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 304
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Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 6.4 x 1.2
ISBN: 1586487485
Dewey Decimal Number: 364.168
EAN: 9781586487485
ASIN: 1586487485
Publication Date: February 4, 2010
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Product Description
Features a tale that penetrates the network of international mobsters and hackers who use the internet to extort money from businesses, steal from tens of millions of consumers and attack government networks.
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 Fascinating, disturbing report on online crime May 3, 2010
Rolf Dobelli (Switzerland)
The Internet has become the ultimate mob hangout, a dangerous venue where U.S. Mafiosi, vicious Russian gang members and illegal hackers from many nations, especially from Eastern Europe, ply their dirty deeds. Cybersecurity reporter Joseph Menn examines cybercrime, exposing the bad guys while telling exciting stories about two intrepid investigators - Barrett Lyon, a U.S.-based "white hat" security hacker, and Andy Crocker, a British cybersecurity agent - who have successfully waged war against cybercriminals. Menn's book is both fascinating and disturbing, with its discussion of "zombie armies" of computers, and its exotically named online desperadoes, like CumbaJohnny. getAbstract recommends this gripping saga to those who want to protect themselves from cybercrime. This outstanding book's only deficiency is, ironically, its remarkable, overwhelming abundance of complex detail. If you think you need a cast list, tech manual and dictionary of arcane online terms, never mind; just hang on for a scary, revealing ride.
 Interesting for an it security professional April 4, 2010
Niels Norgaard (Copenhagen)
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
As an it professional interested in security and a FT reader I find the book to a certain degree interesting, that counts for 4-stars.
But actually I had expected more, and I am not advertising it to my peers (but anyhow to some of my personal friends, in that the book gives insight in the cyber securty issue).
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