Presented at
Summercon 2023,
July 14, 2023, noon
(60 minutes).
ProPublica journalists Renee Dudley and Daniel Golden, are the authors of “The Ransomware Hunting Team: A Band of Misfits’ Improbable Crusade to Save the World from Cyber-Crime,” published in October 2022 by Farrar Straus, & Giroux to critical acclaim. Among other plaudits, Amazon made it an editor’s choice for non-fiction, and the New York Times called it “brilliant.” In this presentation, Dan and Renee will take us through their narrative, descrive the hunt, talk about some of the moral dilemmas, and share some thoughts about the the future of malware.Book signing to follow; bring your copy or buy one at Summercon! https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374603304/theransomwarehuntingteam
Presenters:
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Dan Golden
Daniel Golden, a senior editor and reporter at ProPublica, has won a Pulitzer Prize and three George Polk Awards. He is the bestselling author of The Price of Admission: How America’s Ruling Class Buys Its Way into Elite Colleges—and Who Gets Left Outside the Gates and Spy Schools: How the CIA, FBI, and Foreign Intelligence Secretly Exploit America’s Universities.
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Renee Dudley
Renee Dudley is a technology reporter at ProPublica. Previously, as an investigative reporter at Reuters, she was named a 2017 Pulitzer Prize finalist for her work uncovering systematic cheating on college admissions tests. She started her career at daily newspapers in South Carolina and New England, and has won numerous journalism honors, including the Eugene S. Pulliam First Amendment Award.
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