hackers

A nerve-damaged data thief, is recruited by a new employer for a last-chance run against a powerful artificial intelligence.

Dragged into a resistance effort against a dangerous mega-corporation, young hacker SP4RX finds himself in an unexpected battle with the fate of humanity at stake.

Twelve-year-old Max is determined to investigate the connection between a hacker's online attacks of her grandfather and other town officials and suspicious activity at the supposedly haunted Thornwood Manor, even though her grandfather, who is Blue Creek's police chief, wants to keep Max and her souped-up wheelchair out of police business.

"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"--.

Wick Tate's never believed in trust, from her new hacker boyfriend Milo to the Looking Glass, an organization that can supposedly offer some protection, but then there's her family, and for Wick, family means so many different things, and she must rely upon herself and only herself to escape her demons.

Searching for a mysterious hacker when her Overworld team is invited to compete in an exclusive tournament, Marisa discovers that the event is rife with corruption, infighting, and dangers that render winning the only way to survive.

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, tattoed genius hacker, possessed of the hard-earned wisdom of someone twice her age -- and a terrifying capacity for ruthlessness -- assists Blomkvist with the investigation. This unlikely team discovers a vein of nearly unfathomable iniquity running through the Vanger family, an astonishing corruption at the highest ecehelon of Swedish industrialism -- and a surprising connection between themselves.

"Fifteen-year-old Ani Lee is a skilled hacker researching a strange .wav file that she's downloaded when it behaves as no file ever should. Joe Dyson is a seventeen-year-old operative working for a secret teen division of the British Intelligence who's looking into the disappearance of a friend caught up in an underground music scene that might be more than it appears. When their investigations intertwine, they discover that the .wav file and the music scene are linked--someone's embedding the file into tracks to create a mind-controlled teenage army"--Dust jacket.

Introduces the dangers of hacking and how to defend against hackers.

The reader's choices determine if survival is possible when intelligent machines rise up in arms against their human creators.