Jeremy N Smith Breaking and Entering Kirkus Review
Almost the Book
This taut, true thriller dives into a nighttime world that touches the states all, as seen through the bright, breakneck career of an extraordinary hacker—a woman known merely as Conflicting.
When she arrived at MIT in the 1990s, Alien was quickly drawn to the school's tradition of high-adventure physical trespassing: the original "hacking." Within a year, i of her hallmates was dead and two others were arraigned. Alien's adventures were just just beginning.
After a stint at the storied, secretive Los Alamos National Laboratory, Alien was recruited by a acme cybersecurity house where she deployed her cache of virtual weapons—and the trespassing and social engineering talents she had developed while "hacking" at MIT. The company tested its clients' security past every means possible—not just coding, but donning disguises and sneaking by guards and secretaries into the C-suite.
Alien now runs a bazaar hacking outfit that caters to some of the earth's biggest and nigh vulnerable institutions—banks, retailers, government agencies. Her work combines devilish amuse, old-school deception, and side by side generation spycraft. In Breaking and Entering, cybersecurity finally gets the rich, graphic symbol-driven, fast-paced treatment it deserves.
Critical Praise
A Academic Must Read for 2019 An Amazon Best Book of the Month Featured on NBC's TODAY and Nightly News "Smith's writing style…is well-baked every bit he charts the class of Alien'southward life in a serial of vignettes from uncertain undergraduate to successful business organisation owner. The structure works because Smith is a lively storyteller." — The New York Times Book Review "Amusing and cautionary tale."—WORLD Magazine "A fascinating await at hacking and the cybersecurity industry that has evolved. Conflicting is ane bad-ass woman!" — The Missoulian "A book that reads similar a fictional thriller while remaining solidly grounded in fact...effortless to read, Breaking and Inbound is an engaging cautionary tale of security vulnerabilities and the abiding threat of cyber attacks that businesses and institutions face up on a daily basis. Knowing that our own personal security hangs in the residual, we can't help but feel glad that "white hat hackers" such as Alien are out at that place doing their best to stalk the tide."—New York Journal of Books "A novelistic tech tale that puts readers on the front lines of cybersecurity. For all whose lives and connections depend on the cyberspace—near anybody—this biography of the pseudonymous 'Alien' provides a fast-paced cautionary tale. Jeremy Smith has enough experience as a reckoner developer to understand the technicalities of this world, merely his storytelling makes it intelligible to general readers; indeed, the narrative is more grapheme-driven than technology-driven.... Smith goes into swell detail to demonstrate how Alien could penetrate the security of whomever was employing her, showing how a real criminal would do it, and makes fearfully clear that there is 'no such thing as absolute security in this world, or any definitive and last fixes.' A page-turning real-life thriller, this is the sort of book that may exit readers feeling both invigorated and vulnerable." — Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "A fascinating and riveting account...like an espionage thriller, this account ensnares readers into the high-stakes world of computer security, told through Alien'south emergence equally a recognized expert in a male-boss profession." — Library Periodical "This riveting book follows Alien as she transforms herself from a young woman up for pretty much any challenge, no matter how dangerous, to a woman who is among the all-time in the world at what she does. Freelance journalist Smith writes with gusto, giving Conflicting's story the experience of a novel (or, perchance, a moving picture along the lines of 1995's Hackers). The world of hacking and cybersecurity still carries a mystique; only the privileged few are permitted to learn the secrets that lie inside the close-knit hacker customs. This book opens the gates and invites readers inside." —Booklist "Scintillating.... Conflicting's mindset and exploits epitomize the spirit of hacking—a indomitable perseverance directed at outsmarting and outwitting barriers of any kind.... An unabashedly homo and humane portrait of a brilliant hacker." —Gabriella Coleman, author of Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy "In Breaking and Inbound, Jeremy Smith reveals the man side of cybersecurity. The book covers the vast spectrum of why and how hackers practise what they practice. A great thriller!" —Paul de Souza -
Product Details
- ISBN: 9780358108504
- ISBN x: 0358108500
- Imprint: Mariner Books
- On Auction: 01/14/2020
- Trimsize: 5.310 in (west) 10 8.000 in (h) x 0.000 in (d)
- Pages: 304
- List Price: $xv.99
- BISAC1 : BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Criminals & Outlaws
- BISAC2 : POLITICAL Science / Intelligence & Espionage
- BISAC3 : TRUE CRIME / Espionage
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