Kingpin

KEVIN POULSEN is a senior editor at Wired.com and a contributor to Wired magazine. He oversees cybercrime, privacy and political coverage for Wired.com and edits the award-winning Threat Level blog, which he founded in 2005. He's broken numerous national stories, including the FBI's use of spyware in criminal and national security investigations; a hacker's penetration of a Secret Service agent's confidential files; and the secret arrest of the Army intelligence officer accused of leaking documents to whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks. In 2009 he was inducted into MIN's Digital Hall of Fame for online journalism, and in 2010 was voted one of the "Top Cyber Security Journalists" by his peers.

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Former hacker Kevin Poulsen has, over the past decade, built a reputation as one of the top investigative reporters on the cybercrime beat. In Kingpin, he pours his unmatched access and expertise into book form for the first time, delivering a gripping cat-and-mouse narrative—and an unprecedented view into the twenty-first century’s signature form of organized crime.
The word spread through the hacking underground like some unstoppable new virus: Someone—some brilliant, audacious crook—had just staged a hostile takeover of an online criminal network that siphoned billions of dollars from the US economy..