Secret war, Public menace – DRH066

Right now, while you listen to this podcast, there is a hidden global war underway. The motivation for a lot of what is happening is money – no surprises there.

But some of it is a deliberate, persistent, attempt to do harm. To critical infrastructure, financial systems, health care systems and private companies.

This conflict is not going away anytime soon – there is literally nobody to make peace with. And it is only going to get worse as we sleep-walk into an evermore connected world.

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News:

• Researchers Identify Eight Sites With Exposed Water Ice on Mars

Links:

• The labs that protect against online warfare
• Stuxnet was work of U.S. and Israeli experts, officials say
• Stuxnet
• Inside the cunning, unprecedented hack of Ukraine’s power grid
• NHS ‘could have prevented’ WannaCry ransomware attack
• Wannacry: Everything you still need to know because there were so many unanswered Qs
• Worldwide Threat Assessment of the US Intelligence Community
• I am the Cavalry
• NCSC
• GCHQ
• NSA

Movies & TV:

• WarGames (1983)
• Hackers (1995)
• The Net (1995)
• Who Am I – No System Is Safe (2014)
• Mr. Robot

Books:

• Beyond Fear : Thinking Sensibly About Security in an Uncertain World – Bruce Schneier
• Data and Goliath : The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World – Bruce Schneier
• Ghost In The Wires : My Adventures as the World’s Most Wanted Hacker – Kevin Mitnick