**PLEASE NOTE THIS IS A VIRTUAL PROGRAM THAT WILL TAKE PLACE VIA ZOOM. Registrants will receive a link to access the Zoom Meeting via email.**

Pulitzer Prize winner Daniel Golden and Pulitzer Prize finalist Renee Dudley will deliver a presentation based on their new book, The Ransomware Hunting Team: A Band of Misfits' Improbable Crusade to Save the World from Cybercrime, in this ZOOM webinar. 

About The Book: Scattered across the world, an elite team of code crackers is working tirelessly to thwart the defining cyber scourge of our time. You’ve probably never heard of them. But if you work for a school, a business, a hospital, or a municipal government, or simply cherish your digital data, you may be painfully familiar with the team’s sworn enemy: ransomware. Again and again, an unlikely band of misfits, mostly self-taught and often struggling to make ends meet, have outwitted the underworld of hackers who lock computer networks and demand huge payments in return for the keys. The Ransomware Hunting Team traces the adventures of these unassuming heroes and how they have used their skills to save millions of ransomware victims from paying billions of dollars to criminals.

About The Authors: Renee Dudley is a technology reporter at ProPublica and a former reporter at Reuters, where she was a 2017 Pulitzer Prize finalist for her work in uncovering a major college admissions testing scandal. Daniel Golden is a reporter and senior editor at ProPublica who has won a Pulitzer Prize and three George Polk Awards. He is the bestselling author of The Price of Admission and Spy Schools.

Register directly on Zoom HERE. Presented in collaboration with the Watertown Library. 

NOTE: This program will be recorded. All registrants will receive the recording via email within 24 hours of the program.