Breaking and entering : the extraordinary story of a hacker called "Alien" / Jeremy N. Smith.

"This taut, true thriller takes a deep dive into a dark world that touches us all, as seen through the brilliant, breakneck career of an extraordinary hacker - a woman known only as Alien"-- "This taut, true thriller dives into a dark world that touches us all, as seen through the brilliant, breakne...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Smith, Jeremy N. (Author)
Language:English
Published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019.
Subjects:
Alien > (Hacker)
Alien > (Hacker.)
Hackers > United States > Biography.
Computer security > United States.
Computer crimes > United States.
Computer crimes.
Computer security.
Hackers.
United States.
COMPUTERS / Security / General.
TRUE CRIME / Hoaxes & Deceptions.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Science & Technology.
Computer hackers > United States > Biography.
Biographies.
Genre:
Biography.
Biographies.
Physical Description:xii, 292 pages ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Preface: The hacker next door
  • Part I: Course 19. Inside out ; The coffeehouse club ; Earth to Alien ; A death in the family
  • Part II: In security. Up all night ; I spy ; Wild wild web ; A hackable heart transplant
  • Part III: Agents and Jedis. Capture the flag ; Check, please ; Up in the air ; Europe on five hacks a day
  • Part IV: Owner's manual. The bartender ; The best around ; Phoning home
  • Epilogue: Fast forward.