Joseph Menn on the hunt for internet crime lords

On the podcast this week, Joseph Menn, a Financial Times technology reporter and the author of Fatal System Error: The Hunt for the New Crime Lords Who Are Bringing Down The Internet, discusses cyber crime. Menn says that one of the main challenges of cybersecurity is that the internet was never intended for many of the things it's used for today, like e-commerce or critical infrastructure management. He talks about the implications of the internet still being in beta form and comments on the recent Sony data breach and other similar cyber attacks. Menn also discusses his book, telling a few anecdotes about the people who go beyond computer screens in pursuit of internet crime lords.

Related Links


Fatal System Error: The Hunt for the New Crime Lords Who are Bringing Down the Internet
"'Fatal System Error' has insight on cybercrime," San Francisco Chronicle
"Sony Hack Caps Recent String of Security Horror Shows," PC World

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