Fancy Bear Goes Phishing

By Scott J. Shapiro,

Book cover of Fancy Bear Goes Phishing: The Dark History of the Information Age in Five Extraordinary Hacks

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“Unsettling, absolutely riveting, and―for better or worse―necessary reading.” ―Brian Christian, author of Algorithms to Live By and The Alignment Problem

An entertaining account of the philosophy and technology of hacking―and why we all need to understand it.

It’s a signal paradox of our times that we live in an information…

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Shapiro focuses on a five key episodes in the evolution of hacking, from the time during the early days of the internet when a graduate student at Cornell unleashed a worm that crashed the entire internet, to the sophisticated spear phishing of Russian operatives who gained access to Clinton campaign emails. The focus is as much or more on the human and organizational weaknesses that have made these hacks possible as on the technical details. Each story is told in an accessible and interesting way.

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