Scott Shapiro wants to teach the world how to hack. An expert on legal philosophy and the founding director of Yale University’s Cybersecurity Lab, his day job is to provide cutting-edge teaching for Yale law students on how the online world works and how to keep it secure.

He believes that we can only effectively tackle cybercrime if we understand not only how people hack, but why. In his new book Fancy Bear Goes Phishing he explores true stories from the front line of cybercrime, from the hacker known as Dark Avenger who wrote the first mutating computer virus, to the teenage boy who hacked Paris Hilton’s phone because he wanted to be famous. The book’s title derives from the exploits of Fancy Bear, a group working for Russian military intelligence that hacked the governing body of the US Democratic Party during the 2016 presidential campaign.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25834390-100-knowing-how-to-hack-will-be-vital-in-a-cybercrime-filled-future/