Something of a classic - while it was as explosive as some of the Snowden revelations at the time,some people think it's now a nostalgic look back.
Er, not quite.
The basic "profiles" of hacker types - the Novice (script kiddies!), Tourists, Crackers, Crashers, Thieves and so on - still exist, and give you an insight into who hacks and why that's still good to this day.
What's more worrying is that people still haven't taken up the plain and simple security advice listed, like:
- Force secure passwords.
- Make sure you review security regularly.
- Make sure users don't do stupid things like writing passwords on Post-Its.
- Don't give people more privileges than they need.
- Don't let them users do things they shouldn't normally do (eg: log into an account in Virginia from Hawaii) without checking up on them.
Following those five simple rules would have stopped Snowden dead in his tracks and stopped dozens of other recent hacking "scandals".
So while systems have moved on, users, sadly, still seem stuck in the Stone Age - and this should be required reading for all admins.
ISBN-13: 978-0914845362
ISBN-10: 0914845365
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