Description In 2004, a California computer whiz named Barrett Lyon uncovered the identity of a hacker running major assaults on business websites.
He is the author of 2003\'s All the Rave: The Rise and Fall of Shawn Fanning\'s Napster and a two-time finalist for the Gerald Loeb Award, the top prize in business reporting..
About the Author Joseph Menn covers cyber-security and other technology issues for the Financial Times , after a decade on the same beat for the Los Angeles Times .
Together, their stories explain why cyberCrime is much worse than you thought--and why the Internet might not survive.
Using unprecedented access to mob businesses and Russian officials, it shows how top criminals earned protection from the Russian government--and how Barrett Lyon and Andrew Crocker got closer to the titans of the underground economy than any previous outsider.
It takes readers into the murky hacker underground, traveling the globe from San Francisco to Costa Rica, London, and Russia.
Fatal System Error penetrates both the Russian cyber-mob and the American mafia as the two fight over the Internet\'s massive spoils.
They also sent detective Andrew Crocker, a Welsh former boxer, to Russia to track Down and prosecute the hackers--and to find out who they worked for.
Agents from the London-based National Hi-Tech Crime Unit sought out Barrett and enlisted his help.
In the late 1990s, the Queen herself had declared safe e-commerce a national security priority.
Britain, however, was a different story. government struggled to catch up.
While Barrett investigated the cutting edge of technology crime, the U.
S.
They began by attacking corporate websites but increasingly stole financial data from consumers and defense secrets from governments.
No longer the domain of small-time thieves, it had been discovered by sophisticated gangs.
CyberCrime was evolving.
Without fully grasping the repercussions, he set on an investigation that led him into the heart of the Russian mob.
Description In 2004, a California computer whiz named Barrett Lyon uncovered the identity of a hacker running major assaults on business websites
