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Abstract
Nicole Perlroth is The New York Times cybersecurity reporter and the author of This Is How They
Tell Me the World Ends, the untold history of the global cyber arms trade and cyberweapons arms
race spanning three decades. Perlroth reveals for the first time the classified market’s origins (a
Russian attack on American embassy), its Godfather, brokers, mercenaries, hackers and its spread
to the furthest corners of the globe, from the United States to Israel, the Middle East, South
America, China and beyond. She documents attacks across nations and how each new attack
builds on the last, as nation states learn and improve upon one another’s playbooks, extending
into high-profile attacks on multi-national companies and private organizations. Perlroth’s
reporting spans the period from the 1990s to the 2020 election and its aftermath, when Russia
has been engaged in a months-long hack of the United States federal government itself, an attack
that Perlroth continues to report for the Times, building on her book’s extraordinary revelations.
Bio
Nicole Perlroth is an award-winning cybersecurity journalist for The New York Times, where her work has
been optioned for both film and television. She is a regular lecturer at the Stanford Graduate School of
Business and a graduate of Princeton University and Stanford University. She lives with her family in the
Bay Area, but increasingly prefers life off the grid in their cabin in the woods.
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