On a monthly basis I will publish my reading recommendations which mainly focus on Information Security (InfoSec) and Outdoor Sports. All InfoSec Reading Lists can be found here.
Quotes from the Twitterverse
InfoSec
- Pnyetya: Yet Another Ransomware Outbreak - [link]
- The Behavioral Economics of Why Executives Underinvest in Cybersecurity - “If the focus of cybersecurity programs continues to be on designing better technologies to combat the growing menace of cyberattacks, we’ll continue to neglect the most important aspect of security — the person in the middle.” - [link]
- Travel (Linux) laptop setup - Some interesting aspects of bringing a device into China the secure way - [link]
- The 5 Stages of Data Breach Grief - [link]
- Awesome OSINT Awesome - “A curated list of amazingly awesome open source intelligence tools and resources.” - [link]
- The .io Error – Taking Control of All .io Domains With a Targeted Registration - [link]
- Beyond public key encryption - [link]
- Rooting a Printer: From Security Bulletin to Remote Code Execution - [link]
- Google’s Elite Hacker SWAT Team vs. Everyone - [link]
- One Cloud-based Local File Inclusion = Many Companies affected - that’s the risk in case you use 3rd party software which source code you don’t own - [link]
- Red Team Insights on HTTPS Domain Fronting Google Hosts Using Cobalt Strike - [link]
- Blind XXE - Hunting in the Dark - [link]
- Lifting the clouds from cloud investigations - [link]
- Victoria Police cancel hundreds of speeding fines after WannaCry virus attack - [link]
- NonPetya: no evidence it was a “smokescreen” - [link]
- LeakerLocker: Mobile Ransomware Acts Without Encryption - the interesting part of this malware is that it threatens to share private content with people in the contact list - we have to expect more malware/ransomware like this which threatens to publish private information in the future - [link]
- Can files locked by WannaCry be decrypted: A technical analysis - [link]
- Two Ztorg Trojans Removed from Google Play Store Are Definitely Better - on the difficulty of finding malicious code updates of android apps - [link]
- Google Play is fighting an uphill battle against Android adware - [link]
Outdoor
- Essay: New Conquerors of The Useless — The Role Of Achieving Nothing in a World Obsessed with Doing Everything - [link]