num_pages: 304
description: This taut true thriller dives into a dark world that touches us all as seen through the brilliant breakneck career of an extraordinary hackera woman known only as Alien. When she arrived at MIT in the 1990s Alien was quickly drawn to the schools tradition of highrisk physical trespassing: the original hacking. Within a year one of her hallmates was dead and two others were arraigned. Aliens adventures were only just beginning. After a stint at the storied secretive Los Alamos National Laboratory Alien was recruited by a top cybersecurity firm where she deployed her cache of virtual weaponsand the trespassing and social engineering talents she had developed while hacking at MIT. The company tested its clients security by every means possiblenot just coding but donning disguises and sneaking past guards and secretaries into the Csuite. Alien now runs a boutique hacking outfit that caters to some of the worlds biggest and most vulnerable institutionsbanks retailers government agencies. Her work combines devilish charm oldschool deception and next generation spycraft. In Breaking and Entering cybersecurity finally gets the rich characterdriven fast-paced treatment it deserves. 
language: English
title: Breaking And Entering: The Extraordinary Story of a Hacker Called "Alien"
publisher: Mariner Books