Cyber security professionals might know the highlights of this cyber criminal underworld, but Poulsen is able to provide a lot of detail about how this world functions that is understood by mostly only the cyber criminals themselves and the law enforcement officials who stalk them.
In much the same way that Cuckoo's Egg reads like a spy novel, Kingpin reads like a crime novel. The author of Kingpin, Kevin Poulsen, imbues the story with lush descriptions of how Butler hacked his way around the Internet and pulls the curtain back on how the cyber criminal world functions. But Butler’s transition from pure white-hat hacker into something gray-sometimes a white hat, sometimes a black hat-is a treatise on the cyber criminal world. His downfall resulted from the famous FBI sting called Operation Firewall where agent Keith Mularski was able to infiltrate one of the four forums Butler had hacked: DarkMarket. He is also tangentially associated with the TJX data breach of 2007. Butler is most famous for his epic, hostile hacking takeover in August 2006 of four of the criminal underground’s prominent credit card forums.
Kingpin tells the story of the rise and fall of a hacker legend: Max Butler.
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