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Outlaw chronicles volume 3
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Nyah Parks is a genius hacker who makes a living by cracking the firewalls of the world's largest corporations. But when the biggest job of her life goes wrong, she's plunged into a desperate situation with only one way out: one last hack that will either save her or kill her.
3) The Fox
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English
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Former chief of the British Secret Intelligence Service Adrian Weston is awoken in the middle of the night by a phone call from the prime minister. Her news is shocking: the Pentagon, the NSA, and the CIA have been hacked simultaneously, their seemingly impenetrable firewalls breached by an unknown enemy known only as "The Fox". Even more surprisingly, the culprit is revealed to be a young British teenager, Luke Jennings. He has no agenda, no secrets,...
Author
Series
Kidd novels volume 4
Language
English
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Kidd's friend, Bobby the superhacker, has been murdered. When Kidd goes to Bobby's house to investigate, he finds his battered body, but not his jazzed-up laptop. Now Kidd is doubly disturbed. The murderer is still at large and now has enough secret information to hang a whole lot of people, including Kidd himself. Dodging both the law and other computerheads who want Bobby's information, kidd has to move fast if he is going to survive.
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English
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In an unnamed Middle Eastern security state, a young Arab-Indian hacker shields his clients, dissidents, outlaws, Islamists, and other watched groups, from surveillance and tries to stay out of trouble. He goes by Alif, the first letter of the Arabic alphabet, and a convenient handle to hide behind. The aristocratic woman Alif loves has jilted him for a prince chosen by her parents, and his computer has just been breached by the State's electronic...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Landmark
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
When the lights go out one night, no one panics. Not yet. The lights always come back on soon, don't they? Surely it's a glitch, a storm, a malfunction. But something seems strange about this night. Across Europe, controllers watch in disbelief as electrical grids collapse. There is no power, anywhere. A former hacker and activist, Piero investigates a possible cause of the disaster. The authorities don't believe him, and he soon becomes a prime suspect...
Author
Series
Millennium novels (Stieg Larsson) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 30
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English
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On the eve of publisher Mikael Blomkvist's story about sex trafficking between Eastern Europe and Sweden, two investigating reporters are murdered. And even more shocking for Mikael Blomkvist: the fingerprints found on the murder weapon belong to Lisbeth Salander--the troubled, wise-beyond-her-years genius hacker who came to his aid years before.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 13
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English
Description
Noa continues her efforts to protect runaways from the illicit experiments being conducted by a sinister corporation, while hacker Peter struggles to support her and work against the company on behalf of his victimized girlfriend.
Author
Series
Millennium novels (Stieg Larsson) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 27
Language
English
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Description
The disappearance forty years ago of Harriet Vanger, a young scion of one of the wealthiest families in Sweden, gnaws at her octogenarian uncle, Henrik Vanger. He is determined to know the truth about what he believes was her murder. He hires crusading journalist Mikael Blomkvist, recently at the wrong end of a libel case, to get to the bottom of Harriet's disappearance. Lisbeth Salander, a twenty-four-year-old, pierced, tattooed genius hacker, possessed...
Author
Series
Adventures in extreme reading volume 1
Publisher
Magic Wagon
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Carter Lewis's Uncle Dan has invented a suit that creates a virtual reality world so that the person experiences and interacts with a book as if he were actually there--but when Carter and his cousin Isabelle put on the suits they discover that a hacker is playing games with them.
11) Warcross
Author
Series
Warcross volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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"When teenage coder Emika Chen hacks her way into the opening tournament of the Warcross Championships, she glitches herself into the game as well as a sinister plot with major consequences for the entire Warcross empire"--
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
When a routine assignment goes horribly wrong, resulting in her husband’s murder, penetration specialist Jack, now the #1 suspect, goes on the run, deciding who she can trust as she races against time to clear her name and find the real killer.
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English
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She is the girl with the dragon tattoo - a genius hacker and uncompromising misfit. He is a crusading journalist whose championing of the truth often brings him to the brink of prosecution. Late one night, Blomvist receives a phone call from a source claiming to have information vital to the United States. The source has been in contact with a young female superhacker. The implications are staggering. Blomvist, in desperate need of a scoop for Millennium,...
14) Zero days
Author
Publisher
RedDoor Publishing
Pub. Date
c2019.
Language
English
Description
A deadly virus is threatening the world's computers. It's smart, fast, and developed by a group of elite hackers. It can break through the highest security, crippling any system within seconds. It's the ultimate cyber weapon. Nobody understands the mind of a hacker quite like Chuck Drayton. But he's gone offline, rocked with guilt after a failed operation cost innocent lives. When Chuck is called back into action, he soon gets caught in the perilous...
15) Betrayed
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English
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Framed for ordering a hit on mobster Tony DeMarco, Tina Adler is forced to re-enter the shadowy world of computer hacking she thought she'd left behind. In order to clear her name, she reluctantly joins an FBI team led by her old flame Zeke Chapman, tasked with scouring the deep web to unearth DeMarco's darkest secrets. The trail will lead Tina to the person who framed her - but it may also reveal other secrets, secrets she would rather not know....
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 33
Language
English
Description
"In the concluding volume of Stieg Larsson's Millenium trilogy, Lisbeth Salander lies in critical condition in a Swedish hospital, a bullet in her head. But she's fighting for her life in more ways than one: if and when she recovers, she'll stand trial for three murders. With the help of Mikael Blomkvist, she'll need to identify those in authority who have allowed the vulnerable, like herself, to suffer abuse and violence. And, on her own, she'll...
17) Red team blues
Author
Series
Martin Hench volume 1
Publisher
Tor, Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"New York Times bestseller Cory Doctorow's Red Team Blues is a grabby next-Tuesday thriller about cryptocurrency shenanigans that will awaken you to how the world really works. Martin Hench is 67 years old, single, and successful in a career stretching back to the beginnings of Silicon Valley. He lives and roams California in a very comfortable fully-furnished touring bus, The Unsalted Hash, that he bought years ago from a fading rock star. He knows...
Author
Series
Magic 2.0 volume 1
Publisher
47North
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Martin Banks is just a normal guy who has made an abnormal discovery: he can manipulate reality, thanks to reality being nothing more than a computer program. With every use of this ability, though, Martin finds his little "tweaks" have not escaped notice. Rather than face prosecution, he decides instead to travel back in time to the Middle Ages and pose as a wizard. What could possibly go wrong? An American hacker in King Arthur's court, Martin must...
19) Olivia decoded
Author
Publisher
Entangled Teen
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
After moving in with her grandfather, starting a new school, and ending her relationship with Jack, Olivia's plans to have a normal life are put on hold when she sees Jack again and is threatened by an unknown stalker.
20) Hacking
Author
Publisher
ReferencePoint Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Discusses the threat hacking poses to computer security.