Arthur, Cyber Wars

Charles Arthur’s Cyber Wars: Hacks That Shocked the Business World (Kogan Page, 2018) takes the reader through some well-known and not so well-known hacks: Sony Pictures, HBGary, John Podesta’s inbox, TJX, ransomware, TalkTalk, and Mirai. Each chapter concludes with some lessons and suggestions, but the reality is that we will never make every system secure. We can simply make it a tad harder for the hackers to penetrate “our space” and either gain access to our data or lock us out from it.

The tales of woe told here explore the range of tools hackers have used. For those of us with zero hacking skills it’s an enlightening, if depressing, read.