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Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
It's not just computers -- hacking is everywhere. Legendary cybersecurity expert and New York Times best-selling author Bruce Schneier reveals how using a hacker's mindset can change how you think about your life and the world.
Author
Language
English
Description
"'This is a very difficult letter to write. I hope you will not hate us too much. . . My son broke into your home recently while you were out.' In a quiet, leafy suburb in upstate New York, a teenager has been sneaking into houses--and into the owners' computers as well--learning their secrets, and maybe sharing some of them, too. Who is he, and what might he have uncovered? After two anonymous letters are received, whispers start to circulate, and...
3) Flames
Author
Publisher
Damond Fudge
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
He thought his friends were dead... One year after his two best friends in the world died in a fire, Max Calvert is informed that they might still be alive. The source of this info? The FBI agents who had been tracking the duo's computer hacking exploits. Utilizing his own computer skills, as well as contacts he made during his time in the military, Max travels the globe hoping to find either the truth or his friends...
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Language
English
Formats
Description
Aldrich University is rocked to its core with scandal and intrigue when a hacker dumps 40,000 people's emails--the entire faculty, staff, students, alums--onto an easily searchable database. Affairs and scandals immediately start leaking, but these emails become ticking time bombs that explode when Kit Manning's handsome husband, Dr. Greg Strasser, is murdered. Kit's sister, Willa, flies home to help, returning to a hometown she fled fifteen years...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Most days, Masha Maximow was sure she'd chosen the winning side. In her day job as a counterterrorism wizard for an transnational cybersecurity firm, she made the hacks that allowed repressive regimes to spy on dissidents, and manipulate their every move. The perks were fantastic, and the pay was obscene. Just for fun, and to piss off her masters, Masha sometimes used her mad skills to help those same troublemakers evade detection, if their cause...
8) In beta
Author
Publisher
Inkshares
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
It's 1993, and Jay and Colin are small-town geeks. Senior year is nearly over, and they're still as unpopular as ever. Everything changes when they discover a disk containing a computer program called The Build, a pixel-perfect replica of their hometown. As the boys tweak its code, they discover they can bend the laws of reality. With godlike power, they react as any teenager would: hacking high school to make it more awesome. But someone -- or something...
Author
Publisher
Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Two defense experts explore the collision of war, politics, and social media, where the most important battles are now only a click away. Through the weaponization of social media, the internet is changing war and politics, just as war and politics are changing the internet. Terrorists livestream their attacks, "Twitter wars" produce real world casualties, and viral misinformation alters not just the result of battles, but the very fate of nations....
Author
Series
Witch cats of Cambridge volume 4
Publisher
Polis Books, an imprint of Polis Books, LLC
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"When her ex-boyfriend, who was working on stealth software designed to record and transmit personal data, is murdered, Becca, under scrutiny by the police, enlists a local hacker group to help her expose a killer while introducing her three magical cats to a new addition"--
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Series
Publisher
Sky Pony Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
If you want to be the best at Minecraft, you've got to read up on the latest tricks. This book is packed with full-color screenshots showing the newest, coolest ways to use one of Minecraft's coolest features. With Hacks for Minecrafters: Command Blocks, kids will learn everything they need to know about manipulating and programming command blocks within Minecraft. As well as clearly explaining the commands and how to use them, this book has tons...
Author
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Ten months ago Allie Harper --smart, feisty, too broke to get her car fixed-- rescued Thomas Bennington III, a hot, blind, college professor from a crosswalk in her dicey Cleveland neighborhood. When Allie saved Tom and his groceries from traffic, she unwittingly retrieved his winning $550 million Mondo Mega Jackpot ticket. The payout steered the two of them into a wild dash from romance to mayhem and multiple murders. Nothing's changed. Sure, Allie...
Author
Publisher
Wednesday Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Crystal Donavan gets a message on a mysterious app with a video of her little sister gagged and bound. She has only 24 hours to play-- and win-- the kidnapper's game. At first the tasks are bizarre: steal a test and stuff it in a locker, bake brownies, make a prank call. Soon Crystal realizes each task is meant to hurt-- and kill-- her friends. But if she refuses to play, the kidnapper will kill her sister.Making impossible choices between her friends...
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"In 2015, Russian hackers tunneled deep into the computer systems of the Democratic National Committee, and the subsequent leaks of the emails they stole may have changed the course of American democracy. But to see the DNC hacks as Trump-centric is to miss the bigger, more important story: Within that same year, the Russians not only had broken into networks at the White House, the State Department, and the Joint Chiefs of Staff, but had placed implants...
Author
Publisher
Suma De Letras
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
Description
"QUIZÁ NO CONOZCAS A TUS VECINOS TAN BIEN COMO CREÍAS. En un tranquilo barrio residencial de Nueva York, un barrio de calles arboladas y acogedoras familias, algunos hogares han recibido una nota anónima: Me resulta muy difícil escribir esta carta. Espero que no nos odie. Hace poco mi hijo entró en su casa cuando usted estaba fuera... Un chico ha estado curioseando en las viviendas y en los ordenadores de sus dueños. ¿Quién es y qué ha descubierto?...
18) Survive the Dome
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A high school junior teams up with a hacker during a police brutality protest to shut down a device that creates an impenetrable dome around Baltimore that is keeping the residents in and information from going out"--
19) Hush-hush
Author
Series
Stone Barrington novels volume 56
Language
English
Description
"Stone Barrington is settling in for some downtime in New York City when an anonymous enemy makes himself known. This nameless foe's threats hit close to home, and before Stone can retaliate, the fearsome messages turn into very real consequences. With the help of old friends--and a lovely new tech-savvy acquaintance--Stone sets out to unravel the fatal agenda. But as the web of adversaries expands, Stone realizes that no place is safe, and he'll...
20) 1st case
Author
Language
English
Description
"Recruited into the FBI when her unorthodox programming skills get her kicked out of MIT, a computer genius tracks a killer who has been targeting young women through a sophisticated messaging app."--
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