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If It’s Smart, It’s Vulnerable
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If It’s Smart, It’s Vulnerable

Wiley, 2022 plus...


Editorial Rating

8

Qualities

  • Overview
  • Concrete Examples
  • For Beginners

Recommendation

Cybersecurity expert Mikko Hypponen offers a surprisingly entertaining tour through certain darker regions of the internet. He focuses on malware, relating its history from the first viruses to the modern, more dangerous exploits of online criminal gangs, spies, terrorists and rogue nations. An engaging storyteller, Hypponen describes investigating notorious malware attacks, and advises how businesses and individuals can better protect themselves online.

Take-Aways

  • The internet enables new security threats to individuals, companies and nations.
  • For decades, malware has been the main tool for breaching computer security.
  • Money motivates malware attacks.

About the Author

Mikko Hypponen is the chief research officer at WithSecure and the principal research adviser at F-Secure.