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Jan Henckens

There's a War Going On But No One Can See It

I came across this one while making a Christmas list to send to my family and my Dad gifted it to me.

Huib Modderkolk, a dutch investigative journalist, writes about his experiences covering the world of cybercrime, digital espionage and hacking. The book centers around a couple of stories, happening in or around The Netherlands between 2012 and 2022.

It goes in depth into the hacking of Belgium's national telecommunications provider Belgacom by CIA & GCHQ (link to The Guardian story about it) and gets pretty detailed and technical at times.

I'm quite technical and am interested in these topics so I knew some things before reading this book. Still it was a good refresher on the general premise of cybercrime and hacking, and it highlights the fact that it isn't something happening only in movies or fiction books. It is happening everyday and It is happening here as well.

Posted on 02/01/2026, tagged with Books