Hacking the Billion-Dollar Cybercrime Underground
The SF Gate interviewed Wired.com editor Kevin Poulsen, author of Kingpin: How One Hacker Took Over the Billion Dollar Cybercrime Underground. The SF Gate notes the Information Age has spawned a new kind of criminal. Not one who knocks over banks through armed robbery. Instead, it’s the kind who sits at a laptop and sneaks inside digital vaults to steal money. In the last decade, San Francisco was home to one of the world’s most powerful cybercriminals. He was a man who oversaw a network of identity thieves who stole billions of dollars from credit card companies. But he wasn’t just a bad guy – he worked on both sides of the law, using his hacking skills to fix some system weaknesses even as he exploited others.
