Computer Crime

From the award-winning author of Sandworm comes the propulsive story of a new breed of investigators who have cracked the Bitcoin blockchain, exposing once-anonymous realms of money, drugs, and violence. “I love the book… It reads like a thriller… These stories are amazing.” (Michael...

This Is Not a Game is the extraordinary untold story of the internet’s first conspiracy theory, the legend of Ong’s Hat. Marc Fennell will dive deep into a previously unexplored world of tech hippies, eccentric web subcultures and simmering paranoia, uncovering how this tongue-in-cheek artistic experiment backfired on its creator and went on to influence much of what’s wrong with the internet today.

The propulsive, shockingly plausible sequel to New York Times bestseller Daemon. In one of the most buzzed-about debuts, Daniel Suarez introduced a terrifying vision of a new world order, controlled by the Daemon, an insidious computer program unleashed by a hi-tech wunderkind, Daemon captured...

When Kidd artist, computer whiz, and professional criminal—learns of a colleague’s murder, he doesn’t buy the official story: that a jittery security guard caught the hacker raiding the files of a high-tech Texas corporation. It’s not what his friend was looking for that got him killed...

An immersive, pulse-pounding exposé on the global rise of teenage hackers, offering an insider's portrait of the dark net and the key players who are disrupting corporations, government institutions and our everyday lives—for fans of Bad Blood and Uncanny Valley Julius Kivimaki, aka Zeekill...

NEW YORK TIMES and WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER ONE OF THE WASHINGTON POST'S 10 BEST BOOKS OF 2015 One of the world’s leading authorities on global security, Marc Goodman takes readers deep into the digital underground to expose the alarming ways criminals, corporations, and even countries...

If you love nonstop action and the triumph of the human spirit, you'll adore G.H. White's book. What a great twist! G. H. White writes about the state of the world and the fall of America. Even if you have not read the previous book, you gotta read the second one. An Elite Killing Team is a fast-paced action story about a team built from a serial killer and a war hero. Sometimes heroes do not walk like the rest of us. Zach was a happy teenager until 9/11. He joined the Army Rangers to right wrongs, and in the Middle Eastern war zones, he showed his skill and bravery in one engagement after ...

In Spam Nation, investigative journalist and cybersecurity expert Brian Krebs unmasks the criminal masterminds driving some of the biggest spam and hacker operations targeting Americans and their bank accounts. Tracing the rise, fall, and alarming resurrection of the digital mafia behind the two largest spam pharmacies - and countless viruses, phishing, and spyware attacks - he delivers the first definitive narrative of the global spam problem and its threat to consumers everywhere.

Few things piss off people more than having their computer hacked. That goes double for businesses and government agencies. Nobody should take the law into their own hands, but what if somebody set up an organization to whack hackers? Jack English parked across the street from a mid-century ranch house. The front door was open a crack. Iron Butterfly’s In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida was playing. The bass was cranked all the way up. He knocked on the partly opened door. He didn’t get a response and pushed the door open. There were blood streaks on the floor. Whoever was bleeding had been dragged ...

Every new technology creates a new kind of clue—and a new way to hide the truth. Computers, Clues, and Crime traces the changing relationship between detection, evidence, and technology. Beginning with paper records, typewriters, telegraphs, telephones, and early photography, this illustrated guide follows the evolution of investigative tools through fingerprints, forensic laboratories, DNA, databases, computers, mobile phones, GPS, CCTV, biometrics, artificial intelligence, and synthetic media. Inside you will discover: • How typewriters, ink, and documents created identifiable paper ...

Scams Are the World’s Fastest-Growing Crime pulls back the curtain on the shadowy, fast-evolving world of fraud. Written by Scam Watchdogs LLC, a Florida-based consumer protection group, this book is both a warning and a practical roadmap for anyone who uses a phone, computer, or mailbox. As scams now touch nearly every household, the book explains why these crimes spread so rapidly, how criminals target and manipulate victims, and what you can do to fight back.

Daniel Suarez’s New York Times bestselling debut high-tech thriller is “so frightening even the government has taken note” (Entertainment Weekly). Daemons: computer programs that silently run in the background, waiting for a specific event or time to execute. They power almost every...

When her husband mysteriously disappears in a plane crash into the Virginia countryside, a devastated wife must sort out truth from lies in this page turner from a #1 New York Times bestselling author. "Harrowing ... powerful." -Associated Press Sidney Archer has it all: a husband she loves, a...

MORE THAN 20 MILLION COPIES OFANN RULE'S BOOKS IN PRINT! In this unnerving collection drawn from her personal crime files, "America's best true-crime writer" (Kirkus Reviews) Ann Rule brilliantly dissects the convoluted love affairs that all too often end in violence. Expertly analyzing a...

"With the nuance of a reporter and the pace of a thriller writer, Andy Greenberg gives us a glimpse of the cyberwars of the future while at the same time placing his story in the long arc of Russian and Ukrainian history." —Anne Applebaum, bestselling author of Twilight of Democracy The true...

Kevin Mitnick, the world’s most wanted computer hacker, managed to hack into some of the country’s most powerful—and seemingly impenetrable—agencies and companies. By conning employees into giving him private information and maneuvering through layers of security, he gained access to...

Cochise County Sheriff Joanna Brady’s professional and personal lives collide when her college-age daughter is involved in a missing persons case in this evocative and atmospheric mystery in J. A. Jance’s New York Times bestselling suspense series, set in the beautiful desert country of the...

Two ex-Secret Service agents must face a dark world of violence, codes, and spies at a secret CIA training camp in this #1 New York Times bestseller about a mystery that could destroy the nation. ★ "Compulsively readable ... Baldacci, always strong on suspense ... finds his voice here. The...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “The greatest and most controversial sports gambler ever” (ESPN) Billy Walters shares his “rollicking and edgy life story” (The Wall Street Journal)—revealing the secrets to his fiercely protected betting system and breaking his silence about Phil Mickelson...

**Narrated by the Author** National security strategist and former FBI counterintelligence operative Eric O’Neill exposes how nefarious cybercriminals relentlessly attempt to access your data and wallet, and arms you with his proven tactics for spotting and neutralizing cyberthreats to protect...