In the last 30 years, cyberspace has advanced from a specialized specialized position in the largest field of computer science, in an industry estimated to be worth more than $ 170 billion from a sphere -seeking hackers community. In turn, industry development and high profile hacks, such as the violation of Sony 2015, the US election and leak, the Ransomware Colonial Pipeline attack and a seemingly endless list of Chinese government hacks, have made the cyber -security and Hack Mainstream security.
Pop culture has hugged hackers with television shows such as TV shows Mr. Robotand movies like Leave the world back. But perhaps the most productive medium for cyberspace stories – both fiction and reality – are books.
We have insisted our own list of the best books in cyberspace, based on the books we have read, and the ones proposed by the community Mastodon and Blue.
This list of books (in no specific order) will be updated magazines.
Countdown on zero dayKim zetter
The Cyberettack coordinated by Israeli and American government hackers, known as Stuxnet, which destroyed centrifuges in the Iranian nuclear facility in Natanz, is almost certainly the The most famous hack in history. Due to its impact, its complexity and its absolute boldness, the attack has taken the imagination not only of the community in cyberspace, but also of the greatest audience.
Veteran journalist Kim Zetter He mentions the story of Stuxnet, treating malware as a character that is to be prophesied. To achieve this, Zetter interviews essentially all the main researchers who found the malicious code, analyzed how it worked and understood what he was doing. It is a must read for anyone who works in cyberspace, but also serves as a great introduction to the world of cyberspace and cyberspace for regular peoples.
Dark wireJoseph cox
There were no bite bolder and expansive than the operation of the FBI Trojan Shield, in which the Feds ran a start -up called Anom that sold encrypted phones to some of the worst criminals in the world, from high -profile smuggling.
These criminals believed they used communication devices specially designed to avoid surveillance. In fact, all the supposed secure messages, images and sound notes were channeled to the FBI and the international law enforcement partners. 404 media journalist Joseph Cox Mikra mentions Anom’s story, interviewing the brains of Sting on FBI, developers and workers who ran the start and criminals who use the devices.
The cuckoo’s eggCliff Stoll
In 1986, astronomer Cliff Stoll was commissioned to calculate a $ 0.75 difference in the use of his laboratory network. At this point, the internet was mostly a network for government and academic institutions, and these organizations paid according to how much time they spent on the internet. Over the following year, Stoll struck the threads of the one who seemed like a small incident and ended up discovering one of the first recorded cases of government government governments, in this case that KGB of Russia carried out.
Stoll not only solved the mystery, but wrote it and turned it into a espionage thriller. It is difficult to underestimate how important this book was. When it came out in 1989, the hackers were just a blow to the audience’s imagination. The cuckoo’s egg They have shown new enthusiastic cyberspace how to explore an incident in cyberspace and showed the general public that stories about computer spies could be as exciting as those of the real elements that resemble James Bond.
Your face belongs to usKashmir Hill
Facial recognition has gone quickly from a technology that looked almighty in films and television shows-but was actually Janky and unclear in real life-in a significant and relatively accurate tool for enforcing the law on her daily activities. Long -term technology journalist Kashmir Hill It mentions the history of technology through the rise of one of the controversial newly established businesses that made it mainstream: ClearView AI.
Unlike other books that we profile we launched, at least one of the founders of ClearView AI partially with Hill in an attempt to say his own side of the story, but the journalist did a lot of work to control the events-and in some cases debunk-some of what he heard from the company. Hill is the best director to tell the story of ClearView AI after the first revelation of his existence in 2020, which gives the book a first -person narrative narrative in some sections.
Worship of the dead cowJoseph Menn
Cyberspace research journalist Joseph Menn It says the incredible true back story of the influence of the worship of the dead cow, one of the oldest offshore groups since the 80s and 1990s, and how they helped transform the early internet into what it has done today. Group members include mainstream names, from technological chief executives and activists, some of whom continued to advise presidents and testify to the legislators, the security heroes who have helped to secure many of the modern technologies and communications of the world.
Menn’s book celebrates both of what has succeeded, built and broke the hackers in the name of improving cyberspace, freedom of speech and expression and privacy rights and codifies the story of the early scene, as they said.
Harry in the futureEmily crose
“Hack to the Future” is an essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the incredible and rich history of the world hacking and its many cultures. The author of the book, EmilieA hacker and security researcher covers some of the first hassles to root in mistreatment, until the modern day, with no details to lose the decades in the meantime.
This book is deeply researched, well represented, and both partial and partial distinction of the hacker community transformed by the strange bad whistles that whistle on a phone to score free long-distance calls, to become a strong community.
Trackers in the darkAndy Greenberg
The concept of encryption was born in 2008 a White Paper published by a mysterious (and still unknown) figure called Satoshi Nakamoto. This laid the foundation for Bitcoin, and now, almost 20 years later, Crypto has become its own industry and has been integrated into the global financial system. Crypto is also very popular among hackers, from low -level cheats, in sophisticated spy and thieves in North Korea.
In this book, wired’s Andy Greenberg Details of a series of high profile research based on tracking digital money through blockchain. Interviewing with the researchers who worked in these cases, Greenberg mentions the scenes of the pioneering Silk Silk, as well as businesses against the Dark Web Hacking Marketes (Alpha Bay) and the largest sexual abuse website called “well”.
Dark mirrorBarton Gellman
More than a decade ago, former NSA contractor Edward Snowden broke the huge scale of US government surveillance operations, leaking thousands of top file secrets in a handful of journalists. One of these journalists was Barton GellmanA journalist then Washington Post later written in his book Dark mirror The internal history of the original screening of Snowden and the process of verifying and reference to the cache of the classified government records provided by the complainant.
From the hidden home of private fiber optic cables connecting the data centers of some of the world’s largest companies, with Covert Snooping to legislators and world leaders, the files describe in detail how the National Security Service and its global allies were in a position to be in a position. Dark mirror It is not just a look back at a time in history, but a first account of the way Gellman explored, reported and broke new ground in some of the most important and important journalisms of the 21st century and must be required to read for all cyberspace journalists.
