Proper Planning and Preparation Prevents Piss Poor Penetrations I was asked for good references on pre-operation phases of hacking. I recommended Matt Monte’s “network attacks and exploitation: a framework”, and Bill McRaven’s “Spec Ops: Case Studies in Special Operations Warfare: Theory and Practice”. The Monte book is the best book on cyber written so far. […]
Archives for December 2020
The Network is not the Issue Dude
Ageism is never a good look There is an argument that goes “the Internet is not secure because it was designed in the 60s (or 70s, or whenever) and back then security wasn’t part of the plan. Now we’ve inherited that legacy of no security, and it haunts us still.” For some reason this has […]
Cyber Events
There is a constant need to label cyber operations as “cyber ${battle from history}.” The most recent one, indeed the one that inspired me to write about this phenomenon, is the spectacularly insane “cyber Cuban missile crisis.” The exact quote is from some fraudulent “cyber security experts” apparently: Experts are telling me that the solar […]