18 books like Fatal System Error

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Malicious bots Ken Dunham · 2008 · 161p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Originally designed as neutral entities, computerized bots are increasingly being used maliciously by online criminals in mass spamming events, fraud, extortion, identity theft, and software theft. Malicious Bots: An Inside Look into the Cyber-Criminal Underground of the Internet explores the rise of dangerous bots and exposes the nefarious methods of "botmasters". This valuable resource… Shares: Computer crimes, White-collar Crime, Hackers, True Crime

Synners Pat Cadigan · 1991 · ★ 3.5 · 441p · ≈ 14h · Moderate In Synners, the line between technology and humanity is hopelessly slim. A constant stream of new technology spawns crime before it hits the streets; the human mind and the external landscape have fused to the point where any encounter with "reality" is incidental. Shares: Computer hackers, Hackers

The Hanged Man's Song John Sandford · 2003 · ★ 4.4 · 336p · ≈ 11h · Moderate A superhacker friend of Kidd's named Bobby suddenly disapears from cyberspace, and Kidd knows that isn't a good sign. Shares: Computer hackers, Hackers

WWW Robert J. Sawyer · 2011 · ★ 3.3 · 329p · ≈ 10h · Moderate A Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author joins Ace with a stunning new science fiction epic. Caitlin Decter is young, pretty, feisty, a genius at math, and blind. When she receives an implant to restore her sight, instead of seeing reality she perceives the landscape of the World Wide Web-where she makes contact with a mysterious consciousness existing only in cyberspace. Shares: Computer hackers, Hackers

Warcross Marie Lu · 2017 · ★ 4.1 · 416p · ≈ 13h · Moderate "When teenage coder Emika Chen hacks her way into the opening tournament of the Warcross Championships, she glitches herself into the game as well as a sinister plot with major consequences for the entire Warcross empire"-- Shares: Computer crimes, Hackers

Flickan som lekte med elden Stieg Larsson · 2006 · ★ 4.0 · 631p · ≈ 21h · Moderate Mikael Blomkvist på Millennium har fått korn på ett hett nyhetsstoff. Journalisten Dag Svensson och hans sambo Mia Bergman har hittat avslöjande uppgifter om en omfattande sexhandel mellan Östeuropa och Sverige. Många av de personer som utpekas i traffickinghärvan har höga positioner i samhället. Samtidigt återvänder Lisbeth Salander till Sverige och händelser i hennes mörka förflutna börjar… Shares: Computer hackers, Hackers

Today's white-collar crime Hank J. Brightman · 2009 · 437p · ≈ 14h · Moderate Written as a text for undergraduate courses, this book appeals to instructors interested in teaching the field of white-collar crime, both from a matter-of-fact investigative perspective as well as a decidedly academic endeavor. Accordingly, it goes beyond discussing the basic theories and typologies of commonly-encountered offenses such as fraud, forgery, embezzlement, and currency… Shares: White-collar Crime, True Crime

Cybercrime and Society Majid Yar · 2006 · 216p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Extensively updated and expanded to reflect the evolving landscape of online crime, this fourth edition of Cybercrime and Society is a comprehensive and accessible introduction to this complex and fascinating topic. But just what are cybercrimes? And who are the cybercriminals? You will learn how the internet and communication technologies present new challenges to individual and collective… Shares: Computer crimes, True Crime

Internet fraud casebook Joseph T. Wells · 2010 · 416p · ≈ 13h · Moderate "This one-of-a-kind collection consists of actual cases written by fraud examiners out in the field. These cases were hand selected from hundreds of submissions and together form a comprehensive picture of the many types of Internet fraud how they are investigated, across industries and throughout the world. Topics included are phishing, on-line auction fraud, security breaches, counterfeiting,… Shares: Computer crimes, True Crime

Neuromancer William Gibson · 1984 · ★ 3.9 · 310p · ≈ 10h · Moderate The first of William Gibson's Sprawl trilogy, Neuromancer is the classic cyberpunk novel. The winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Philip K. Dick Awards, Neuromancer was the first fully-realized glimpse of humankind’s digital future — a shocking vision that has challenged our assumptions about our technology and ourselves, reinvented the way we speak and think, and forever altered the landscape of our… Shares: Computer hackers, Hackers

Hackers Steven Levy · 1984 · ★ 4.0 · 457p · ≈ 15h · Moderate Today, technology is cool. Owning the most powerful computer, the latest high-tech gadget, and the whizziest website is a status symbol on a par with having a flashy car or a designer suit. And a media obsessed with the digital explosion has reappropriated the term "computer nerd" so that it's practically synonymous with "entrepreneur." Yet, a mere fifteen years ago, wireheads hooked on tweaking… Shares: Computer hackers, Hackers

Billion Dollar Whale Bradley Hope & Tom Wright · 2018 · ★ 4.5 · 399p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Two Pulitzer-finalist Wall Street Journal reporters document the true story of how a young social climber orchestrated one of history's biggest financial heists, exposing the secret nexus of elite wealth, banking, Hollywood and politics. 75,000 first printing. "What does it take to steal $5 billion? In 2009, with the dust yet to settle on the financial crisis, a mild-mannered Wharton grad set in… Shares: White-collar Crime, True Crime

Invisible Darkness Stephen Williams · 1996 · ★ 4.0 · 553p · ≈ 18h · Moderate Invisible Darkness is the story of one of the more bizarre cases in recent memory--killings so sensational that they prompted the Canadian government, in the interests of justice, to silence its national press and to lock foreign journalists out of the courts.To all appearances, Paul and Karla Bernardo had a fairytale marriage--beautiful working-class girl weds bright upper-middle-class guy and… Shares: True Crime

Nice Girl Rachael Jane Chin · 2011 Nice Girl? is a 1941 American musical comedy film directed by William A. Seiter and starring Deanna Durbin, Franchot Tone, Walter Brennan, Robert Stack, and Robert Benchley. Based on the play Nice Girl? by Phyllis Duganne, the film is about a young girl who finds herself attracted to one of her fathers business partners who comes to town to give her father a scholarship for his dietary studies. Shares: True Crime

Outlaws Adam Shand · 2011 What's it like to be an outlaw biker? 'We're dd magnets,' one of them tells Adam Shand. 'Drunks in bars like to test themselves against a so-called outlaw.' Once seen as a free-wheeling, brawling, pleasure-seeking bunch of misfits rolling down the highways, bikers are now cast as social bogeymen. If you believe the dire warnings of the media and politicians, they are an organised crime threat on… Shares: True Crime

Red card Ken Bensinger · 2018 · ★ 4.4 · 368p · ≈ 12h · Moderate "The definitive account of the FIFA scandal, the biggest international corruption case of recent years, touching dozens of countries and spearheaded by U.S. investigators, published on the eve of the biggest sporting event on the planet, soccer's World Cup"-- The FIFA case began with an IRS agent's review of an American soccer official's tax returns. It led to a huge worldwide corruption scandal… Shares: White-collar Crime, True Crime

The Authentic Life of Billy, The Kid Pat Garrett · 2008 · 128p · ≈ 4h · Moderate Hankering for a mostly true tale about the hard-living desperadoes who inhabited America's desert Southwest in the mid-1800s? This biography of the ill-fated gunslinger Billy, the Kid was written by Pat Garrett, the sheriff who shot Billy down. Although some historians now question the veracity of some of the self-aggrandizing bluster Garrett and his ghostwriter included in the book, The… Shares: True Crime

Last Yakuza Jake Adelstein · 2017 · ★ 4.4 · 408p · ≈ 13h · Moderate The Last Yakuza tells the history of the yakuza like it’s never been told before.Makoto Saigo is half-American and half-Japanese in small-town Japan with a set of talents limited to playing guitar and picking fights. With rock stardom off the table, he turns toward the only place where you can start from the bottom and move up through sheer merit, loyalty, and brute force — the yakuza.Saigo,… Shares: True Crime

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