Reddit reviews Kingpin: How One Hacker Took Over the Billion-Dollar Cybercrime Underground
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I enjoyed Kingpin by Kevin Poulson it provided an excellent overview of the carder markets.
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As well as being a great book for anyone interested in cyber security, the main guy (definitely a greyhat at the time) does this, and the fallout is one of the major factors that screws him up and sends him blackhat.
Not sure if you are into security tech but some of my favorites....
Also thought I'd include some that I have purchased but not finished yet in case you'd be interested.
Kingpin:
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Yes, it's improving, but it's not all fixed yet, hence the two frauds on my accounts within the past year. One was an actual duplicated card, complete with CCV number and magnetic stripe.
A great book on how bad things have been, up until chip cards finally started getting market acceptance, is Kingpin, about a hacker who stole thousands of credit cards, mostly from stored data. Vendors often are not in legal compliance. Restaurants were especially bad.
Debit cards didn't escape either; one year banks absorbed $2 billion in debit card fraud. They'd introduced a secret PIN in the magnetic stripe, to fend off phishing attacks, and then just didn't bother checking it.
In terms of security, crypto on a hardware wallet is light years beyond anything in mainstream finance. Even our exchanges have better security than they do; my online stock broker and my credit union offer no 2FA at all.
You sure it was YA? Sounds like it could be either a bio of Kevin Poulsen or Kevin Mitnick