Hacking espionage war and cybercrime as you've never read about them before Fancy Bear was
hungry. Looking for embarrassing information about Hillary Clinton the elite hacking unit
within Russian military intelligence broke into the Democratic National Committee network
grabbed what it could and may have contributed to the election of Donald Trump. Robert Morris
was curious. Experimenting one night the graduate student from Cornell University released the
Great Worm and became the first person to crash the internet. Dark Avenger was in love. To
impress his crush the Bulgarian hacker invented the first mutating computer virus-engine and
nearly destroyed the anti-virus industry. Why is the internet so insecure? How do hackers
exploit its vulnerabilities? Fancy Bear Goes Phishing tells the stories of five great hacks
their origins motivations and consequences. As well as Fancy Bear Robert Morris and Dark
Avenger we meet Cameron Lacroix a sixteen-year-old from South Boston who hacked Paris
Hilton's cell phone because he wanted to be famous and Paras Jha a Rutgers undergraduate who
built a giant botnet designed to get him out of his calculus exam and disrupt the online game
Minecraft but which almost destroyed the internet in the process. Scott Shapiro's five stories
demonstrate that computer hacking is not just a tale of technology but of human beings. Yet as
Shapiro shows hackers do not just abuse computer code - they exploit the philosophical
principles of computation: the very features that make computers possible also make hacking
possible. He explains how our information society works the ways our data is stored and
manipulated and why it is so subject to exploitation. Both intellectual romp and dramatic
true-crime narrative Fancy Bear Goes Phishing exposes the secrets of the digital age.
