Yesterday I went to the library for the first catch of the semester: The Art of Deception.
The Art of Deception is a book written by Kevin Mitnick covering how social engineering can be applied to hacking. Kevin Mitnick was one of the greatest phreakers of all time, attacking big corporations such as Bell. In the book, he explains to actually attack a system as it’s not only about hacking and exploiting code, but also exploiting the human factor.
I have a ton of material to read, but I’ll find time to cover it right away anyway as I plan to take more books this semester than the former. I’m looking into security more and more. Databases (Oracle, MySQL, DB2, Microsoft SQL), networks (Cisco) and security are three of the most marketable technologies of these days. I have (somehow) had a near approach to the first two, but I find the security area the most interesting one.
It’s unavoidable to walk across the security section at the systems engineering section of CEM’s library without peeking a single book. That’s how I originally found a couple of books last semester which originally made me look into security and even consider dedicating my professional life to it.
What I like most of it is that, unlike most of the things I’ve learned, anything new to is different. Real-life encounters are different too, wether it’s about analyzing a system that was attacked to implementing security measures, requirements are very different. It’s something that is particularly similar to programming, which I like very much too.
So I’ll read more about it. I just remembered I really need to learn more about CGI’s, as it’s kind of important when it comes to security.
