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DarkMarket: Cyberthieves, Cybercops and You by Misha Glenny



Overview: The benefits of living in a digital, globalized society are enormous; so too are the dangers. The world has become a law enforcer's nightmare and every criminal's dream. We bank online; shop online; date, learn, work and live online. But have the institutions that keep us safe on the streets learned to protect us in the burgeoning digital world? Have we become complacent about our personal security--sharing our thoughts, beliefs and the details of our daily lives with anyone who might care to relieve us of them?



In this fascinating and compelling book, Misha Glenny, author of the international best seller "McMafia," explores the three fundamental threats facing us in the twenty-first century: cybercrime, cyber warfare and cyber industrial espionage. Governments and the private sector are losing billions of dollars each year fighting an ever-morphing, often invisible and often super smart new breed of criminal: the hacker