From publisher blurb: Global commerce and communication have become reliant upon computer networks. Any catastrophe to or attack against this worldwide system poses a threat to the safety and security of billions of people. Unfortunately, the security infrastructure designed to protect these networks has proven vulnerable, especially when it comes to the human factor; people fall for scams, they use easily-solved passwords, and become lax over time. A spectrum of bad actors conduct daily attacks against the global network. These attacks originate from individual hackers all the way up to government-sponsored intelligence agencies. A little over a decade ago, however, a new criminal consortium formed. It evolved over time, originating as a group of men and women, several of whom possessed criminal records, recruited by a U.S. intelligence agency to create computer prediction models for major global events. This covert band of hackers were collectively known as the Helix Group. The agency in control of Helix benefited from this group’s talents but failed to anticipate the true nature of what they’d created. The members of Helix erased their identities, compromised many government computer systems, and vanished. Not long thereafter, Helix was reborn as a crime consortium dedicated to controlling, manipulating, and compromising computer systems worldwide.