book

Just finished a very interesting book. Finally! MY OWN TIME to
immerse myself with a "Geeky" book. It turned out not so geeky. It
was quite an interesting read, recommend to everyone. This book
discussed the most recent Cyber Warfare as well as the techniques and
infrastructure deployed in very plain English. It really touched on,
again in very plan English, the Social Engineering aspects of the
attacks. Facebook, Google Apps, LinkedIN, you named it. I had been
suspecting the ease of att@cks using them and this book had confirmed
it 100%. And Yes, the RBN (Russian Business Network) connections.
The author of this book was in line with what I have been preaching
for the last two years, skip the MS Operating system and get yourself
a Mac. Wipe your old laptop of MS and install Ubuntu Linux (free and
has everything). At least with that, you will decrease your chance of
being a "zombie" in a Botnet, infect with viruses that can steal your
username and password, or blame as an agent to the c0Mm!e land
@tt@cking foreign countries. ;-)

Name: Inside Cyber Warfare by O'Reilly. I purchased the PDF version
and downloaded it this afternoon. Started reading at 2:30pm and now
5:45pm, I am finished (that's including the 10 minutes I spent
retrieving a stuck drain plug in the sink caused by Ayi today). O
yeah, with my free account, I got 40% the listed price. Maybe I can
load it up to my "potential" iPad with a Kindle App. Ha! Not ready
to purchase one yet. Never buy 1st generation of anything. Maybe a
Kindle DX International version.

Next two books on my list: Hacking, The Next Generation (Don't be
confused with "Star Trek, The Next Generation) and Mac OX for Unix
Geeks. Yes, so boring.