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The Challenges in Building Digital Trust

SecureWorld News

According to Cliff Stoll, author of the book The Cuckoo's Egg , the community was small, and the level of trust was very high. System administrators didn't bother locking down their systems, because the possibility of bad actors using them didn't really cross their minds. That is a trend that is already apparent.

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Top Cybersecurity Accounts to Follow on Twitter

eSecurity Planet

His 1994 book detailing cryptographic algorithms ( Applied Cryptography ) was just the beginning of his contributions to technical perspectives on system design, cybersecurity, privacy, and more. Longtime network and system administrator Jack Daniel is a technology community activist, mentor, and storyteller.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Ethical Hacking

ForAllSecure

When people feel threatened by it they want to throw the book at Yeah. I wrote a book with Kevin Mitnick, a convicted felon. You've got some folks that are, you know, interested in industrial control systems, because that's kind of an untouched area, even though it's been around some legacy systems, but that's kind of a new landscape.

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