Hacks, Leaks, and Revelations: The Art of Analyzing Hacked and Leaked Data
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Hacks, Leaks, and Revelations: The Art of Analyzing Hacked and Leaked Data

Hacks, Leaks, and Revelations: The Art of Analyzing Hacked and Leaked Data

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Micah Lee (Author)  

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In the age of hacking and whistleblowing, the internet contains massive troves of leaked information containing goldmines of newsworthy revelations in the public interest - if you know how to unravel them. For investigative journalists or amateur researchers with or without prior programming knowledge, this book gives you the technical expertise to find and interrogate complex datasets, transforming unintelligible files into ground-breaking reports. Through hands-on assignments and examples that highlight real-world cases, information security expert and well-known investigative journalist Micah Lee guides you through the process of analysing leaked datasets from governments, companies, and political groups. You'll dig into hacked files from the BlueLeaks dataset of law enforcement records, analyse social media traffic from those behind the 2021 insurrection at the US Capitol, hear the exclusive story of privately leaked data from the anti-vaccine group America's Frontline Doctors, and much more. You'll also learn the technical skills and Python programming basics needed for data science investigations, security concepts like disk encryption, how to work with data in JSON, CSV, and SQL formats, and tricks for using the command-line interface to explore datasets packed with secrets just waiting to be discovered.
Micah Lee is a renowned investigative journalist and computer security engineer celebrated for securing Edward Snowden's NSA leak. He is the director of information security at The Intercept and an advisor to the transparency collective Distributed Denial of Secrets. A former EFF staff technologist and Freedom of the Press Foundation co-founder, Lee is also a Tor Project contributor and the developer of open source security tools like OnionShare and Dangerzone.
  • Contributor: Micah Lee
  • Imprint: No Starch Press,US
  • ISBN13: 9781718503120
  • Number of Pages: 544
  • Packaged Dimensions: 177x234mm
  • Packaged Weight: 369
  • Format: Paperback
  • Publisher: No Starch Press,US
  • Release Date: 2024-01-09
  • Binding: Paperback / softback
  • Biography: Micah Lee is a renowned investigative journalist and computer security engineer celebrated for securing Edward Snowden's NSA leak. He is the director of information security at The Intercept and an advisor to the transparency collective Distributed Denial of Secrets. A former EFF staff technologist and Freedom of the Press Foundation co-founder, Lee is also a Tor Project contributor and the developer of open source security tools like OnionShare and Dangerzone.

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