Hacking Money

Businesses, investors, and consumers are grappling with the seismic daily changes technology has brought to the banking and finance industry. The Money Hackers is the story of fintech’s major players and explores how these disruptions are transforming even money itself. Whether you’ve heard of fintech or not, it’s already changing your life. Have you ever “Venmoed” someone? Do you think of investing in Bitcoin--even though you can’t quite explain what it is? If you’ve deposited a check using your iPhone, that’s fintech. If you’ve gone to a bank branch and found it’s been closed for good, odds are that’s because of fintech too. This book focuses on some of fintech’s most powerful disruptors--a ragtag collection of financial outsiders and savants--and uses their incredible stories to explain not just how the technology works, but how the Silicon Valley thinking behind the technology, ideas like friction, hedonic adaptation, democratization, and disintermediation, is having a drastic effect on the entire banking and finance industry. Upon reading The Money Hackers, you will: Feel empowered with the knowledge needed to spot the opportunities the next wave of fintech disruptions will bring. Understand the critical pain points that fintech is resolving, through a profile of the major finsurgents behind the disruption. Topic areas include Friction (featuring founders of Venmo), Aggregate and Automate (featuring Adam Dell, founder of Open Table and brother of Michael Dell), and Rise of the Machines (featuring Jon Stein, founder of robo-advisor Betterment). Learn about some of the larger-than-life characters behind the fintech movement. The Money Hackers tells the fascinating story of fintech--how it began, and where it is likely taking us.

“This guy does next level stuff. I have worked with him and I have no idea how or why he is able to do some of the things I have witnessed. Science is just catching up with biohacking. It’s time to start studying spirit hacking and how Shaman Durek can achieve the tangible results he achieves.” —Dave Asprey, author of the New York Times bestseller, The Bulletproof Diet, Silicon Valley investor and technology entrepreneur In Spirit Hacking: Shamanic Keys to Reclaim Your Personal Power, Transform Yourself, and Light Up the World, Shaman Durek, a sixth-generation shaman, shares life altering shamanic keys allowing you to tap into your personal power. Through new information you will banish fear and darkness from your life in favor of light, positivity, and strength. Shaman Durek’s bold and sometimes controversial wisdom shakes loose our assumptions about ourselves and the very world around us. He ultimately teaches us how to step fearlessly out of this Blackout (the age of darkness we are currently experiencing) and access a place of fierce empowerment by use of tools and techniques of timeless Shamanic tradition. This transformation is both personal and collective; as individuals step out of darkness and begin to experience the light, we bring our loved ones and communities out of the shadows as well. Shaman Durek inherited a rich legacy of ancient wisdom and now shares this knowledge for a modern context. He advises everyone from celebrities like Gwyneth Paltrow and Nina Dobrev to innovative executives such as Bullet-Proof Coffee founder Dave Asprey. Spirit Hacking shatters readers’ complacency, giving them tools to navigate the tumultuous times in which we find ourselves. We will emerge from this period happier, lighter, and more vibrant than ever before.

"For most people, rent or a mortgage takes up the largest chunk of their income. But with house hacking, that piece can come down to virtually zero-and it's easier than you'd think! In its simplest form, house hacking is the real estate investment strategy where you buy a multifamily house and rent it out to cover your costs and live for free. But this can come in all shapes and sizes, whether it be inviting in roommates, owning multiple properties, live-in flips, vacation rentals, or even participating in Airbnb. In The Everything Guide to House Hacking, you will learn: the pros and cons of house hacking; the minimum you need to get started; whether renovating is worth it; how to be a responsible landlord; and more! Discover everything you want to know about homeownership and how you can build wealth from your investment properties. The path to financial freedom starts here"--

Hacking provides an introduction to the community of hackers and an analysis of the meaning of hacking in twenty-first century societies. On the one hand, hackers infect the computers of the world, entering where they are not invited, taking over not just individual workstations but whole networks. On the other, hackers write the software that fuels the Internet, from the most popular web programmes to software fundamental to the Internet's existence. Beginning from an analysis of these two main types of hackers, categorised as crackers and Free Software/Open Source respectively, Tim Jordan gives the reader insight into the varied identities of hackers, including: • Hacktivism; hackers and populist politics • Cyberwar; hackers and the nation-state • Digital Proletariat; hacking for the man • Viruses; virtual life on the Internet • Digital Commons; hacking without software • Cypherpunks; encryption and digital security • Nerds and Geeks; hacking cultures or hacking without the hack • Cybercrime; blackest of black hat hacking Hackers end debates over the meaning of technological determinism while recognising that at any one moment we are all always determined by technology. Hackers work constantly within determinations of their actions created by technologies as they also alter software to enable entirely new possibilities for and limits to action in the virtual world. Through this fascinating introduction to the people who create and recreate the digital media of the Internet, students, scholars and general readers will gain new insight into the meaning of technology and society when digital media are hacked.

This book teaches financial engineering in an innovative way: by providing tools and a point of view to quickly and easily solve real front-office problems. Projects and simulations are not just exercises in this book, but its heart and soul. You will not only learn how to do state-of-the-art simulations and build exotic derivatives valuation models, you will also learn how to quickly make reasonable inferences based on incomplete information. This book will give you the expertise to make significant progress in understanding brand new derivatives given only a preliminary term sheet, thus making you extraordinarily valuable to banks, brokerage houses, trading floors, and hedge funds. Financial Hacking is not about long, detailed mathematical proofs or brief summaries of conventional financial theories; it is about engineering specific, useable answers to imprecise but important questions. It is an essential book both for students and for practitioners of financial engineering. MBAs in finance learn case-method and standard finance mainly by talking. Mathematical finance students learn the elegance and beauty of formulas mainly by manipulating symbols. But financial engineers need to learn how to build useful tools, and the best way to do that is to actually build them in a test environment, with only hypothetical profits or losses at stake. That's what this book does. It is like a trading desk sandbox that prepares graduate students or others looking to move closer to trading operations. Foreword Foreword (309 KB) Sample Chapter(s) Chapter 6: Puzzles and Bugs (269 KB) Chapter 9: The Best Trade in the World? (93 KB) Request Inspection Copy

This book explains the methodologies, framework, and "unwritten conventions" that ethical hacks should employ to provide the maximum value to organizations that want to harden their security. It goes beyond the technical aspects of penetration testing to address the processes and rules of engagement for successful tests. The text examines testing from a strategic perspective to show how testing ramifications affect an entire organization. Security practitioners can use this book to reduce their exposure and deliver better service, while organizations will learn how to align the information about tools, techniques, and vulnerabilities that they gather from testing with their business objectives.

If you are attracted to Hacking world, this book must be your first step. This book teaches you how to think like hackers and protect your computer system from malware, viruses, etc. It will give you insight on various techniques and tools used by hackers for hacking. The book demonstrates how easy it is to penetrate other system and breach cyber security. At the same time, you will also learn how to fight these viruses with minimum damage to the system. Irrespective of your background, you will easily understand all technical jargons of hacking covered in the book. It also covers the testing methods used by ethical hackers to expose the security loopholes in the system. Once familiar with the basic concept of hacking in this book, even dummies can hack a system. Not only beginners but peers will also like to try hands-on exercise given in the book. Table Of Content Chapter 1: Introduction 1. What is hacking? 2. Common hacking terminologies 3. What is Cybercrime? 4. What is ethical hacking? Chapter 2: Potential Security Threats 1. What is a threat? 2. What are Physical Threats? 3. What are Non-physical Threats? Chapter 3: Hacking Tools & Skills 1. What is a programming language? 2. What languages should I learn? 3. What are hacking tools? 4. Commonly Used Hacking Tools Chapter 4: Social Engineering 1. What is social engineering? 2. Common Social Engineering Techniques 3. Social Engineering Counter Measures Chapter 5: Cryptography 1. What is cryptography? 2. What is cryptanalysis? 3. What is cryptology? 4. Encryption Algorithms 5. Hacking Activity: Hack Now! Chapter 6: Cracking Password 1. What is password cracking? 2. What is password strength? 3. Password cracking techniques 4. Password Cracking Tools 5. Password Cracking Counter Measures Chapter 7: Trojans, Viruses and Worms 1. What is a Trojan? 2. What is a worm? 3. What is a virus? 4. Trojans, viruses and worms counter measures Chapter 8: Network Sniffers 1. What is IP and MAC Addresses 2. What is network sniffing? 3. Passive and Active Sniffing 4. What is ARP Poisoning? 5. What is a MAC Flooding? 6. Sniffing the network using Wireshark Chapter 9: Hack Wireless Networks 1. What is a wireless network? 2. How to access a wireless network? 3. Wireless Network Authentication 4. How to Crack Wireless Networks 5. Cracking Wireless network WEP/WPA keys Chapter 10: DoS(Denial of Service) Attacks 1. What is DoS Attack? 2. Type of DoS Attacks 3. How DoS attacks work 4. DoS attack tools Chapter 11: Hack a Web Server 1. Web server vulnerabilities 2. Types of Web Servers 3. Types of Attacks against Web Servers 4. Web server attack tools Chapter 12: Hack a Website 1. What is a web application? What are Web Threats? 2. How to protect your Website against hacks ? 3. Hacking Activity: Hack a Website ! Chapter 13: SQL Injection 1. What is a SQL Injection? 2. How SQL Injection Works 3. Other SQL Injection attack types 4. Automation Tools for SQL Injection