American Computer Criminals: Adrian Lamo, Kevin Mitnick, Mark Abene, Bradley Willman, Larry Mendte, Ytcracker, Robert Soloway, Chad Davis

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 23. Chapters: Adrian Lamo, Kevin Mitnick, Justin Tanner Petersen, Mark Abene, Larry Mendte, Bradley Willman, Jonathan James, Robert Soloway, YTCracker, Chad Davis, Kenneth Walton, Dennis Moran, Christopher William Smith, Jeremy Hammond, Kevin Poulsen, Jeanson James Ancheta, Alan Ralsky, Eddie Davidson, Jerome Heckenkamp, Max Butler, John Zuccarini, Leonard Rose, William Genovese, Scott Levine, Chris Lamprecht, Jay Cohen, Kenneth Fetterman, Bill Landreth, Nicolas Jacobsen, Cameron Lacroix. Excerpt: Adrian Lamo is a threat analyst and "grey hat" hacker. He first gained media attention for breaking into several high-profile computer networks, including those of The New York Times, Yahoo!, and Microsoft, culminating in his 2004 arrest. In 2010, Lamo became embroiled in the WikiLeaks scandal involving Bradley Manning, who was arrested after Lamo reported to federal authorities that Manning had leaked hundreds of thousands of sensitive U.S. government documents. Lamo was born in Boston, Massachusetts to Mario Lamo and Mary Lamo-Atwood in 1981. He spent his early childhood in Arlington, Virginia, until moving to Bogot, Colombia around the age of 10. When his family moved back to the United States two years later, they settled in San Francisco, where Adrian lived until he tested out of high school a year early. Popularly called the "homeless hacker" for his transient lifestyle, Lamo spent most of his travels couch-surfing, squatting in abandoned buildings and traveling to Internet cafes, libraries and universities to investigate networks, and sometimes exploiting security holes. Despite performing authorized and unauthorized vulnerability assessments for several large, high-profile entities, Lamo refused to accept payment for his services. In the mid-1990s, Lamo became a volunteer for the gay and lesbian media firm PlanetOut.com. In 199...