Lohrman on Security

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Read this book by Daniel Shoemaker, Ken Sigler and Tamara Shoemaker. Looking for a handbook for teaching the cybersecurity body of knowledge in a conventional classroom setting?

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Joseph Steinberg

JUNE 8, 2023

The second edition of Cybersecurity For Dummies , Joseph Steinberg’s best-selling introductory-level book about cybersecurity, is now available in French. The book is the down-to-earth guide you need to secure your own data (and your company’s, too).

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Schneier on Security

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

I have a new book coming out in February. A Hacker’s Mind is my pandemic book, written in 2020 and 2021. It’s about hacking. It generalizes the term hack as a means of subverting a system’s rules in unintended ways. We’re simply not ready for the speed, scale, scope, and sophistication of AI hackers.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

His groundbreaking book, The Codebreakers was the first serious book I read about codebreaking, and one of the primary reasons I entered this field. David Kahn has died. He will be missed.

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Lohrman on Security

JULY 30, 2023

If you are looking for a deep-dive strategy book that looks into a wide range of cybersecurity topics in an updated fashion, this book is for you.

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Joseph Steinberg

JANUARY 26, 2024

The Polish version of the second edition of Cybersecurity For Dummies , Joseph Steinberg’s best-selling introductory-level book about cybersecurity, is now available. The book provides readers of the Polish language with a down-to-earth guide to help them to secure their data (and the data belonging to their employers).

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Joseph Steinberg

JANUARY 22, 2024

Hacking et Cybersécurité Mégapoche pour les Nuls , a single-volume book containing French versions of the latest editions of both the best selling CyberSecurity for Dummies by Joseph Steinberg, and Hacking For Dummies by Kevin Beaver, is now available to the public.

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Joseph Steinberg

JULY 21, 2022

The second edition of Cybersecurity For Dummies , Joseph Steinberg’s best-selling introductory-level book about cybersecurity, is now available. The book is the down-to-earth guide you need to secure your own data (and your company’s, too). Topics covered in the book include: ? The who and why of cybersecurity threats. ?

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Lohrman on Security

AUGUST 11, 2024

Carter Schoenberg is a trusted security expert who has vast experience in the public and private sectors. Here’s his guidance on what works and what doesn’t with the cybersecurity industry.

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Troy Hunt

OCTOBER 20, 2021

The full tale of what I first did (and how disastrous it ultimately became), is up front early in the book so I won't relay it here, but it's quite the story. The book title - Pwned - also seemed like a natural fit. "Somehow" is a theme throughout the book because if I'm honest, none of this was really planned.

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We Live Security

OCTOBER 10, 2024

ESET Research shares new findings about Telekopye, a scam toolkit used to defraud people on online marketplaces, and newly on accommodation booking platforms

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Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 11, 2024

In July, I wrote about my new book project on AI and democracy, to be published by MIT Press in fall 2025. Remember, the goal here is for a title that will make a potential reader pick the book up off a shelf, or read the blurb text on a webpage. My co-author and collaborator Nathan Sanders and I are hard at work writing.

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Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 20, 2021

They used gift cards and prepaid credit cards to buy the books, so there was no available balance when Amazon tried to charge them the buyout price for non-returned books. They also used various aliases and other tricks to bypass Amazon’s fifteen-book limit. In all, they stole 14,000 textbooks worth over $1.5

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Schneier on Security

JULY 30, 2021

It’s about 150 linear feet of books, conference proceedings, journals, and monographs — mostly from the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s. The time has come for me to find a new home for my (paper) cryptography library.

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Schneier on Security

APRIL 2, 2024

And a 1994 review of Applied Cryptography by redacted : Applied Cryptography, for those who don’t read the internet news, is a book written by Bruce Schneier last year. The book is destined for commercial success because it is the only volume in which everything linked to cryptography is mentioned. There are many redactions.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 25, 2021

. “Western Digital has determined that some My Book Live and My Book Live Duo devices are being compromised through exploitation of a remote command execution vulnerability,” the company said in a statement June 24. The My Book Live and My Book Live Duo devices received its final firmware update in 2015. .”

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 31, 2024

Which means that sometime in early 1993 I, as an unpublished book author who only wrote a couple of crypto articles for Dr. Dobbs Journal , asked him to read and comment on my book manuscript. He’s listed in the acknowledgments as a reader of every other of my books from Beyond Fear on. And he said yes. And he read it.

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Lohrman on Security

JULY 4, 2021

Guy Perelmuter offers an insightful, easy to read, helpful guide to present and future technology in business areas ranging from the future of jobs to AI and from cryptocurrencies to quantum computing.

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Schneier on Security

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Also see her excellent book on the topic. Susan Landau wrote an essay on the privacy, efficacy, and equity of contract-tracing smartphone apps.

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Schneier on Security

AUGUST 27, 2020

Surveillance capitalism has some unique properties that make it particularly unethical and incompatible with a free society, and Zuboff makes them clear in her book. I think it's both. But the current acceptance of monopolies in our society is also extremely damaging -- which Doctorow makes clear.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

A key subject of the book Spam Kings by Brian McWilliams , Hawke was a Jewish-born American who’d legally changed his name from Andrew Britt Greenbaum. ” The book’s “about the author” page said James was a “disruptive technology pioneer” who was into rock climbing and was a resident of Squamish.

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Schneier on Security

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Ben Rothke chose A Hacker’s Mind as “the best information security book of 2023.”

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 17, 2021

Paul van Oorschot’s webpage contains a complete copy of his book: Computer Security and the Internet: Tools and Jewels. It’s worth reading.

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 11, 2021

Other people’s phone numbers stored in address books. Come next month, users will no longer have that choice. Some of the data that WhatsApp collects includes: User phone numbers. Profile names. Profile pictures and. Status message including when a user was last online. Diagnostic data collected from app logs.

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Schneier on Security

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Greg Priore, the person in charge of the rare book room at the Carnegie Library, stole from it for almost two decades before getting caught. It's a perennial problem: trusted insiders have to be trusted.

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Adam Levin

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

One terabyte of data belonging to a major hotel booking platform was found leaked online. Gekko Group is a worldwide B2B hotel booking platform that serves over 600,000 hotels worldwide. A huge trove of customer data belonging to Gekko Group was found online in an unsecured format.

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Troy Hunt

OCTOBER 23, 2021

But hey, all that aside I'm really happy to have the preview of my long-awaited book out this week which is now available for anyone to go and grab for free. Get the book! (at iPhone 13 Pro Max night shots are kinda awesome 🤩 pic.twitter.com/Nqb3lhGTYI — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) October 22, 2021. References So.

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Troy Hunt

APRIL 17, 2021

With that (mostly) out of the way, we headed off to Thredbo for a couple of days of mountain biking, hitting trails I've only ever snowboarded down before (yes, we get snow in Australia).

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 14, 2023

The book will be published on February 7. Here’s the book’s webpage. Schneier’s fascinating work illustrates how susceptible many systems are to being hacked and how lives can be altered by these subversions. Schneier’s deep dive into this cross-section of technology and humanity makes for investigative gold.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

It’s the same book, only a cheaper format. The paperback version of A Hacker’s Mind has just been published. But—and this is the real reason I am posting this—Amazon has significantly discounted the hardcover to $15 to get rid of its stock. So if you’ve been waiting for a price drop, this is your chance.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 21, 2022

References Indian Fashion Retailer Data Leaked on Darknet Marketplace (yeah, nah, it's on the clear web, which is even worse) The Brian Krebs book I was trying to remember is Spam Nation (not just carding, heaps of other interesting stuff too) The other book I was thinking of is American Kingpin, also a great read (this one is about Ross Ulbricht (..)

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 24, 2023

My latest book continues to sell well. You can order a signed book from me here. For those of you in New York, I’m giving at book talk at the Ford Foundation on Thursday, April 6. Its ranking hovers between 1,500 and 2,000 on Amazon. It’s been spied in airports. Reviews are consistently good.

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Troy Hunt

APRIL 9, 2021

(but it is kinda funny.)

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Joseph Steinberg

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

He has written books ranging from Cybersecurity for Dummies to the advanced Official (ISC)2® Guide to the CISSP®-ISSMP® CBK®. His opinions are also frequently cited in books, law journals, security publications, and general interest periodicals. “We are thrilled to have Joseph as our newest advisory board member.

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 14, 2023

I’ll be discussing my new book A Hacker’s Mind: How the Powerful Bend Society’s Rules at Harvard Science Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, on Friday, March 31, 2023 at 6:00 PM EDT.

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Anton on Security

DECEMBER 21, 2021

The SRE book says the same: “For SRE, automation is a force multiplier, not a panacea.” However, the book also adds that “multiplying force does not naturally change the accuracy of where that force is applied.” Another great idea for your SOC is hiding deep inside the book. and to make new discoveries in this process too.

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 21, 2023

The book will be published on February 7. Here’s the book’s webpage. Elegantly probing the mechanics of exploitation, Schneier makes a persuasive case that “we need society’s rules and laws to be as patchable as your computer.” You can pre-order a signed copy from me here.

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