Kingpin
How One Hacker Took Over the Billion-Dollar Cybercrime Underground
Ranked #8 in Hacking, Ranked #11 in Cyber Security — see more rankings.
The true story of Max Butler, the master hacker who ran a billion dollar cyber crime network.
The word spread through the hacking underground like some unstoppable new virus: an audacious crook had staged a hostile takeover of an online criminal network that siphoned billions of dollars from the US economy.
The culprit was a brilliant programmer with a hippie ethic and a supervillain's double identity. Max 'Vision' Butler was a white-hat hacker and a celebrity throughout the programming world, even serving as a consultant to the FBI. But there was another side to Max. As... more
The word spread through the hacking underground like some unstoppable new virus: an audacious crook had staged a hostile takeover of an online criminal network that siphoned billions of dollars from the US economy.
The culprit was a brilliant programmer with a hippie ethic and a supervillain's double identity. Max 'Vision' Butler was a white-hat hacker and a celebrity throughout the programming world, even serving as a consultant to the FBI. But there was another side to Max. As... more
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Kingpin is ranked in the following categories:
- #60 in Computer
- #69 in Information Technology
- #18 in Security
- #80 in Silicon Valley
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