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Industry of Anonymity
- Inside the Business of Cybercrime
- Narrated by: David Stifel
- Length: 11 hrs and 47 mins
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Summary
The most extensive account yet of the lives of cybercriminals and the vast international industry they have created, deeply sourced and based on field research in the world's technology-crime hot spots.
Cybercrime seems invisible. Attacks arrive out of nowhere, their origins hidden by layers of sophisticated technology. Only the victims are clear. But every crime has its perpetrator - specific individuals or groups sitting somewhere behind keyboards and screens. Jonathan Lusthaus lifts the veil on the world of these cybercriminals in the most extensive account yet of the lives they lead and the vast international industry they have created.
We are long past the age of the lone adolescent hacker tapping away in his parents' basement. Cybercrime now operates like a business. Its goods and services may be illicit, but it is highly organized, complex, driven by profit, and globally interconnected. Having traveled to cybercrime hot spots around the world to meet with hundreds of law enforcement agents, security gurus, hackers, and criminals, Lusthaus takes us inside this murky underworld and reveals how this business works. He explains the strategies criminals use to build a thriving industry in a low-trust environment characterized by a precarious combination of anonymity and teamwork.
Crime takes hold where there is more technical talent than legitimate opportunity and where authorities turn a blind eye - perhaps for a price. In the fight against cybercrime, understanding what drives people into this industry is as important as advanced security.
Based on seven years of fieldwork from Eastern Europe to West Africa, Industry of Anonymity is a compelling and revealing study of a rational business model that, however much we might wish otherwise, has become a defining feature of the modern world.
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- Goronwy-Wyn
- 09-12-23
Interesting and thorough
A very well researched and thought provoking analysis of the subject, sadly the very tip of a large iceberg.
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- Andy Roxburgh
- 02-03-19
interesting material
interesting material but the audio book is a bit awkward to listen to when it is peppered with citations. Pity there isn't a version of the audio book that leaves the citations out. The narrator is a bit flat too.
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- Eoin
- 17-08-22
Very good content, wooden oratory
Material references and examples very good, oratory is very wooden and automaton-like. References interject smooth delivery of content, detracts from the overall topics enjoyment. Difficult to remain engaged.
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- Amazon Customer
- 02-12-21
Could have been great...
... but the constant citations made it too difficult to listen to. Hardly a minute goes by without a citation, and it became an annoyance - too much for me - so I gave up on it after 4 chapters. It is a shame, as the information was good, but the audio book production was not.
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