Crime Dot Com: From Viruses to Vote Rigging, How Hacking Went Global

Book Description

“Brilliantly researched and written.”—Jon Snow, Channel 4 News

“A comprehensive and intelligible account of the elusive world of hacking and cybercrime over the last two decades. . . . Lively, insightful, and, often, alarming.”—Ewen MacAskill, Guardian

On May 4, 2000, an email that read “kindly check the attached LOVELETTER” was sent from a computer in the Philippines. Attached was a virus, the Love Bug, and within days it had been circulated across the globe, paralyzing banks, broadcasters, and businesses in its wake, and extending as far as the UK Parliament and, reportedly, the Pentagon. The outbreak presaged a new era of online mayhem: the age of Crime Dot Com. In this book, investigative journalist Geoff White charts the astonishing development of hacking, from its conception in the United States’ hippy tech community in the 1970s, through its childhood among the ruins of the Eastern Bloc, to its coming of age as one of the most dangerous and pervasive threats to our connected world. He takes us inside the workings of real-life cybercrimes, drawing on interviews with those behind the most devastating hacks and revealing how the tactics employed by high-tech crooks to make millions are being harnessed by nation states to target voters, cripple power networks, and even prepare for cyber-war. From Anonymous to the Dark Web, Ashley Madison to election rigging, Crime Dot Com is a thrilling, dizzying, and terrifying account of hacking, past and present, what the future has in store, and how we might protect ourselves from it.

中文：

书名：犯罪网络通讯：从病毒到选举舞弊，黑客如何走向全球

“出色的研究和写作。”–琼恩·雪诺，第四频道新闻

“对过去二十年来难以捉摸的黑客和网络犯罪的全面和易懂的描述。。。。活泼、有洞察力，而且常常令人震惊。《卫报》

2000年5月4日，菲律宾的一台电脑发出了一封电子邮件，上面写着：请查收附件中的情书。随之而来的是一种名为Love Bug的病毒，几天内它就在全球范围内传播，导致银行、广播公司和企业瘫痪，并一直延伸到英国议会，据报道，还蔓延到五角大楼。疫情的爆发预示着一个新的网络混乱时代：互联网时代犯罪网站。在这本书中，调查记者杰夫·怀特描绘了黑客的惊人发展，从20世纪70年代美国嬉皮士科技界的概念，到它在东部集团废墟中的童年，再到它作为我们这个互联世界最危险和最普遍的威胁之一的成熟。他带我们深入现实生活中的网络犯罪的运作，利用对最具破坏性的黑客幕后黑手的采访，并揭示了民族国家如何利用高科技骗子用来赚取数百万美元的策略来瞄准选民，瘫痪电力网络，甚至为网络战做准备。从匿名到黑暗网络，从阿什利·麦迪逊到选举舞弊，犯罪网站这是一个令人兴奋、令人眼花缭乱、令人恐惧的黑客记录，过去和现在，未来是什么，以及我们如何保护自己免受黑客攻击。