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Kingpin : how one hacker took over the billion-dollar cybercrime underground / Kevin Poulsen.

Title
Kingpin : how one hacker took over the billion-dollar cybercrime underground / Kevin Poulsen.
Author
Poulsen, Kevin, 1965-
Publication
New York : Crown Publishers, c2011.

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Description
xiii, 266 p.; 25 cm.
Summary
Poulsen explores in this page-turning tale the criminal exploits of a hacker of breathtaking ambition, Max Butler, who stole access to 1.8 million credit card accounts.
Subject
  • Butler, Max
  • Commercial criminals > United States > Case studies
  • Computer crimes > United States > Case studies
  • Hackers > United States > Case studies
Genre/Form
Case studies.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-263).
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Machine generated contents note: 1. Key -- 2. Deadly Weapons -- 3. Hungry Programmers -- 4. White Hat -- 5. Cyberwar! -- 6. I Miss Crime -- 7. Max Vision -- 8. Welcome to America -- 9. Opportunities -- 10. Chris Aragon -- 11. Script's Twenty-Dollar Dumps -- 12. Free Amex! -- 13. Villa Siena -- 14. Raid -- 15. UBuyWeRush -- 16. Operation Firewall -- 17. Pizza and Plastic -- 18. Briefing -- 19. Carders Market -- 20. Starlight Room -- 21. Master Splyntr -- 22. Enemies -- 23. Anglerphish -- 24. Exposure -- 25. Hostile Takeover -- 26. What's in Your Wallet? -- 27. Web War One -- 28. Carder Court -- 29. One Plat and Six Classics -- 30. Maksik -- 31. Trial -- 32. Mall -- 33. Exit Strategy -- 34. DarkMarket -- 35. Sentencing -- 36. Aftermath.
ISBN
  • 9780307588685
  • 0307588688
  • 9780307588708 (ebk.)
  • 030758870X (ebk.)
LCCN
^^2010027952