Fatal System Error

2010 nonfiction book by Joseph Menn

For the general computer concept, see fatal system error.

Fatal System Error

First edition cover

Author| Joseph Menn
Language| English
Genre| Nonfiction
Publisher| PublicAffairs

Publication date

| 2010
Publication place| United States
Media type| Print (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages| 304 pp
ISBN| 978-1-58648-748-5

Fatal System Error (2010) is a book by Joseph Menn, an investigative technology reporter at The Washington Post, and previously with Reuters, the Financial Times and Los Angeles Times.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]

The book investigates the espionage network of international mobsters and hackers who use the Internet to extort money from businesses, steal from tens of millions of consumers, and attack government networks.[9]

The main focus of the book is on Barrett Lyon and Andy Crocker and the capture of cybercriminals Ivan Maksakov, Alexander Petrov, and Denis Stepanov.[10]

## References

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1. ^ "Joseph Menn's bio". Los Angeles Times. April 21, 2008. Archived from the original on 26 May 2010.
2. ^ "Joseph Menn: Insight into the NSA's Weakening of Crypto Standards". USENIX Security 2014 San Diego. USENIX. Retrieved 1 February 2021.
3. ^ Menn, Joseph; Wolff, Josephine; Cherne, Lodrina (2020-06-12). "Beyond Cyberspace: Security in a Networked World". Big, If True: Series On Tech & The Pandemic. WGBH Forum Network. Retrieved 1 February 2021.
4. ^ Menn, Joseph (2003). All the rave : the rise and fall of Shawn Fanning's Napster (1st ed.). New York: Crown Business. ISBN 0609610937.
5. ^ Menn, Joseph (2003-05-06). "Book Excerpt: All the Rave". Wired.
6. ^ Menn, Joseph (2019). Cult of the Dead Cow : how the original hacking supergroup might just save the world (First ed.). New York: PublicAffairs. ISBN 978-1541724426.
7. ^ Menn, Joseph (12 November 2014). "Joseph Menn". Joseph Menn. Archived from the original on 12 November 2014. Retrieved 1 February 2021.
8. ^ Menn, Joseph (4 October 2016). "Exclusive: Yahoo secretly scanned customer emails for U.S. intelligence - sources". Reuters. Archived from the original on 7 July 2017. Retrieved 1 February 2021.
9. ^ Raab, Vicky (25 January 2010). "Of Sequels and Cybercrime". The New Yorker.
10. ^ Berinato, Scott (2005-05-01). "A Whiz Kid Took On an Extortionist -- and Won". CSO Magazine. Archived from the original on 2008-09-07.

## External links

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* "Fatal System Error". fserror.com. Archived from the original on 14 June 2017.
* STAYING SAFER ONLINE fserror.com
* Fatal System Error PublicAffairs Books
* Interview with Joseph Menn WNYC The Leonard Lopate Show
* Fighting Cybercrime, One Digital Thug At A Time NPR

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