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A NOTE ON SOURCES

The bulk of the information in this book is provided by roughly 200 hours of interviews which I conducted between 2009 and 2011. Leonida Krush- elnycky also undertook several hours of interviews.

In addition to this, I have relied on two main documentary sources. The first are the court records from a number of trials related to the websites CarderPlanet, Shadowcrew and DarkMarket. The second are the archives of the websites themselves, in particular the former two which are readily available on the web. Unfortunately, the DarkMarket archive is less accessible. I know of only one and that is in the possession of the FBI who, for operational reasons, are not at liberty to share it.

There is a considerable amount of literature on the issues of cyber crime, cyber industrial espionage and cyber warfare, much of it found on the Internet. For thoroughness, I would highlight the work of Kevin Poulsen and his team whose blog, Threat Level, is both well-written and properly researched. I would recommend two books dealing specifically with cyber crime, Kevin Poulsen's Kingpin and Joseph Menn's Fatal System Error. For a broader introduction into some of the challenges emerging as a conse- quence of Internet technology, Jonathan Zittrain's The Future of the Internet: And How to Stop It should be the first port of call.

Other blogs of real value include Krebsonsecurity by Brian Krebs; Bruce Schneier's newsletter, Crypto-gram; the blog of F-Secure, the Finnish Computer Security company, and, finally, Dancho Danchev and Ryan Naraine's Zero Day blog on Znet.

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