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InfoSec Reading

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  • #2
    syklops
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,966 ✭✭✭✭syklops


    Thank Christ. A new InfoSec thread that doesnt involve SSL(or Ryanair).


  • #3
    Blowfish
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,112 ✭✭✭Blowfish


    The Cuckoo's Egg. I'd recommend it for anyone interested in InfoSec as despite it dealing with ridiculously old tech at this point, the lessons in it are still suprisingly relevant today.


  • #4
    Volovo
    Registered Users Posts: 93 ✭✭Volovo


    Blowfish wrote: »
    The Cuckoo's Egg. I'd recommend it for anyone interested in InfoSec as despite it dealing with ridiculously old tech at this point, the lessons in it are still suprisingly relevant today.

    Good suggestion. Halfway through this now.. Yes I have a lot of free time on my hands! :o


  • #5
    liamo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,193 ✭✭✭liamo


    I read an abridged version of this in the Reader's Digest a long time ago - cripes, it must have been 25 years ago - I was probably just starting out in IT about then.

    It was a great read then and it's a great read now.

    Great suggestion!
    Blowfish wrote: »
    The Cuckoo's Egg. I'd recommend it for anyone interested in InfoSec as despite it dealing with ridiculously old tech at this point, the lessons in it are still suprisingly relevant today.


  • #6
    Keyzer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,331 ✭✭✭Keyzer


    An addition for the list:

    Misha Glenny - DarkMarket: Cyberthieves, Cybercops and You


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  • #7
    anotherlogin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3 ✭anotherlogin


    Ghost in the Wires by Kevin Mitnick. Normally I hate biographies but this was fantastic. And a nice break from usually technically orientated infosec books.


  • #8
    syklops
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,966 ✭✭✭✭syklops


    Stealing the Network: How to own the box. A terrific read.


  • #9
    Manach
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 9,733 Mod ✭✭✭✭Manach


    ++ on Cuckoos Egg.

    Spam Wars by Brian Krebs: Fairly recent one, on the Russian control of the Pharma bot nets and the civil wars that brought them down. Reads at times like a Russian novel.

    Also in general, I found works by Susan Brenner good but tending towards the legal aspects of InfoSec.


  • #10
    Khannie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,485 ✭✭✭✭Khannie


    anotherlogin wrote: »
    Ghost in the Wires by Kevin Mitnick. Normally I hate biographies but this was fantastic. And a nice break from usually technically orientated infosec books.

    Agreed. Enjoyable read. Very low effort.


  • #11
    trout
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,945 ✭✭✭trout


    What about blogs? Or is twitter where all the kool kids are at these days?

    Obviously Krebs and Schneier ... Moxie Marlinspike's blog is very good, but infrequent.

    I like Zero Day, and Naked Security too.

    For books ... The Cuckoo's Egg is a must read, and I really enjoyed Dissecting the Hack, with it's complementary POVs


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  • #12
    Volovo
    Registered Users Posts: 93 ✭✭Volovo


    You know that funny phenomenon of learning or seeing something new, and then for the following days or weeks you seem to see that same thing again and again all over the place, where you never would have noticed it before!?

    That is kind of happening to me now with Cliff Stoll, the author of that Cuckoo's Egg book. My God he's incredibly eccentric. He just popped up in a channel I follow on YouTube, thought ye might enjoy this!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-k3mVnRlQLU


  • #13
    syklops
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,966 ✭✭✭✭syklops


    Masters of Deception is a good read. All about the early days of hacking and the "war" between the Masters of Deception and the Legion of Doom who were trying to out do each other with digital pranks.


  • #14
    Hotblack Desiato
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,476 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    Volovo wrote: »
    That is kind of happening to me now with Cliff Stoll, the author of that Cuckoo's Egg book. My God he's incredibly eccentric.

    You haven't lived until you own a zero-volume single-surfaced four-dimensional object suspended in three-dimensional space, trust me. Guaranteed to break the ice at parties.
    Still hoping to read his book sometime :)

    Scrap the cap!



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