Fatal System Error (42 page)
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Authors: Joseph Menn
Tags: #Business & Economics, #General, #Computers, #Security, #Viruses & Malware, #Online Safety & Privacy, #Law, #Computer & Internet, #Social Science, #Criminology
Speedera Networks
Spilotro, Tony
Sporting News
Sportinglndex
SprutNet
St. Petersburg, Russia
Stanford University
Stapleton, Bobby
Starbucks
Starluck Casino
State Department, U.S.
State Farm Insurance
Stepanenko, Roman
Stepanov, Denis
Stepanov, Vyacheslav
Sterling, Rachelle
Stern, Howard
Stewart, Joe
Stone, Roger
Storm
StormPay
Stran
Strause, Jonathan
Straw, Jack
Students for a Free Tibet
Superbowl Sunday (2004)
Sweden
Symantec
Taiwan
Tambov gang
Tan Dailin
Team Cymru
TeliaSonera
Terrorism
Tethong, Lhadon
Texas Hold’Em
Thomas, David R.
Thomas, Rob
Tibet
Time Warner Inc.
Titan Rain
TiVo
T.J. Maxx
TJX
T-Mobile
Tom, Scott
Top Layer
Torpig
Travel Channel
Trend Micro
Trojan horses
Tsastsin, Vladimir
Tucows
Turner, Dayton
Twitter
Two-factor authentication
Tyukanov, Anatoly “Vox,”
U.K. Royal Mail
Ukraine
Ultimate Bet
Ultimate Poker
UltraDNS Corp.
UN. See United Nations
Underground economy
CarderPlanet and
denial-of-service attacks and
identity theft and
law enforcement and
Shadowcrew and
viruses and
United Kingdom. See Britain
United Nations (UN)
United States
BetCRIS and
China and
cybersecurity and
DDoS and
gambling law in
Internet crime and
law enforcement and
mafia in
Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act
U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission
Valis, Fred
Van Dyke, James
Vega, Roman
Vendorsname
Venezuela
VeriSign
Video
Vietnam
Virtual private network (VPN)
Viruses
Bagle
Blue Security, Inc. and
denial-of service attacks and
free-speech laws and
Melissa
MyDoom
Sasser
SoBig
spamming and
underground economy and
Visa
VO-Group
VPN.
See
Virtual private network
See
Virtual private network
Walker, Lee
Wall Street Journal
WarGames
(film)
(film)
Warshavsky, Seth
Washington
Post
Post
WebMedia Interactive Inc.
Webmoney
Wedbush Morgan
Wells, Mario
Wells Fargo
Western Union
“Who Wrote SoBig?,”
“The Weasel.” See Rennick, Darren
William Hill
Willis, Bruce
Windows
Windows 2000
Wire Act (1961)
Witteles, Todd
“Wizard of Odds.” See Shackleford, Michael
World Poker Robot Championship
World Poker Tour
World Series of Poker
World War III,
World Wide Web. See Internet
Worms
Blue Security, Inc. and
Code Blue
Conficker
Wu, Perry
Wyly, Charles, Jr.
YaBet
Yahoo!
Yakovlev, Igor
Yastremskiy, Maksym
Yeltsin, Boris
YouTube
Zarubina, Maria
Zenz, Kimberly
Zet
Zeus
Zittrain, Jonathan
Zombie computers
See also
Robots (bots)
See also
Robots (bots)
Zombie networks.
See
Botnets
See
Botnets
Zombies
See also
Robots (bots)
See also
Robots (bots)
ZoneEdit, Inc.
Joseph Menn
covers cybersecurity and other technology issues for the
Financial Times,
after a decade on the same beat for the
Los Angeles Times.
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.
covers cybersecurity and other technology issues for the
Financial Times,
after a decade on the same beat for the
Los Angeles Times.
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.
PublicAffairs is a publishing house founded in 1997. It is a tribute to the standards, values, and flair of three persons who have served as mentors to countless reporters, writers, editors, and book people of all kinds, including me.
I. F STONE, proprietor of
I. F Stone’s Weekly,
combined a commitment to the First Amendment with entrepreneurial zeal and reporting skill and became one of the great independent journalists in American history. At the age of eighty, Izzy published
The Trial of Socrates,
which was a national bestseller. He wrote the book after he taught himself ancient Greek.
I. F Stone’s Weekly,
combined a commitment to the First Amendment with entrepreneurial zeal and reporting skill and became one of the great independent journalists in American history. At the age of eighty, Izzy published
The Trial of Socrates,
which was a national bestseller. He wrote the book after he taught himself ancient Greek.
BENJAMIN C. BRADLEE was for nearly thirty years the charismatic editorial leader of The
Washington
Post. It was Ben who gave the
Post
the range and courage to pursue such historic issues as Watergate. He supported his reporters with a tenacity that made them fearless and it is no accident that so many became authors of influential, best-selling books.
Washington
Post. It was Ben who gave the
Post
the range and courage to pursue such historic issues as Watergate. He supported his reporters with a tenacity that made them fearless and it is no accident that so many became authors of influential, best-selling books.
ROBERT L. BERNSTEIN, the chief executive of Random House for more than a quarter century, guided one of the nation’s premier publishing houses. Bob was personally responsible for many books of political dissent and argument that challenged tyranny around the globe. He is also the founder and longtime chair of Human Rights Watch, one of the most respected human rights organizations in the world.
For fifty years, the banner of Public Affairs Press was carried by its owner Morris B. Schnapper, who published Gandhi, Nasser, Toynbee, Truman, and about 1,500 other authors. In 1983, Schnapper was described by
The Washington Post
as “a redoubtable gadfly.” His legacy will endure in the books to come.
The Washington Post
as “a redoubtable gadfly.” His legacy will endure in the books to come.
Peter Osnos,
Founder and Editor-at-Large
Founder and Editor-at-Large
Copyright © 2010 by Joseph Menn
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Menn, Joseph.
Menn, Joseph.
Fatal system error : the hunt for the new crime lords who are bringing down the Internet / by Joseph Menn.
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