I just finished reading; Kingpin: How One Hacker Took Over the Billion-Dollar Cybercrime Underground By Kevin Poulsen.

This  is be the best behind the scenes of the new hacker world.  If you read Hackers by Steven Levy and or The Cuckoo’s Egg by Cliff Stole, this is a must read for you.

It is just amazing how much detail and understanding Kevin brings to the details in this book.  I had to read and re-read many pages to follow the twists and turns the rise and fall of Max Vision.  (Yes that is his real name.)

The movie Social Network was interesting.  This book is so fantastic it reads like some crazy fiction hacker book but every word has been researched.

I thought at one time I wanted to work in the information security business.   It’s hard enough to live a clean life. This book showed me just how close the security groups to the criminal groups.  This book gave me chills.  I’d never want to get that close.