Human Hacked

Foreword

“Publicity, discussion, and agitation are necessary to accomplish any work of lasting benefit.”

—Robert M. La Follette, Sr.'s speech in Evansville, Indiana (July 7, 1906), as quoted by Michael Wolraich in “Unreasonable Men: Theodore Roosevelt and the Republican Rebels Who Created Progressive Politics,” July 22, 2014

The discussion of cybercriminals attacking various devices is a daily headline in print and online. Criminals seem to craft new and innovative ways to attack and exploit an ever-improving and robust defensive posture offered by cybersecurity “experts” around the globe. These experts will not hesitate to exclaim the threat loudly so they can sell you every solution you need 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Cybercriminals steal data and money, and cybersecurity companies demand data and money. Who wins? Not the people. They are too busy getting services or getting served; they are in the middle and completely lost in an increasingly more complex dance of everchanging threats, vulnerabilities, and solutions. What is needed is a reference, a guide to what is happening and what will soon happen on a broad scale and certainly in the near future, information with principles that transcend time and something where those principles apply universally to all devices. It must include information about the expanding threat surface, the broader range of vulnerable available devices, and even things we do not consider part of our digitally connected world…yet. These ...