Title: Breaking and Entering Pdf The Extraordinary Story of a Hacker Called "Alien"
Author: Jeremy N. Smith
Published Date: 2019-01-08
Page: 304
An Amazon Best Book of January 2019: We often hear about the exploits of some of the most infamous cybercriminals--but who are the hackers working against them? In Breaking and Entering we follow the career of one of the good guys, a woman who calls herself “Alien”—a moniker she adopted on her first day at MIT—who now runs her own cybersecurity firm. A risk taker by nature, Alien was drawn to hacking. At MIT, she excelled at tests of physical hacking and became part of a network of young people who wanted to look around corners and invent new methods. Her career path includes work at a top secret facility at Los Alamos, and at cybersecurity firms where she honed her skills at manipulating people as well as code. Through Alien’s eyes, we see how everyday activities, such as visiting a bank, are rife with opportunity for cybercriminals, and how white hat hackers like herself test protocols and find security loopholes before systems can be breached. Alien’s life and experiences have often been dangerous and extreme, making it easy to forget at times that this is a work of nonfiction. Breaking and Entering is an exciting and absorbing read that puts a new face on the secretive world behind our keyboards. --Seira Wilson, Amazon Book Review
When she arrived at MIT in the 1990s, Alien was quickly drawn to the school’s tradition of high‑risk physical trespassing: the original “hacking.” Within a year, one of her hallmates was dead and two others were arraigned. Alien’s adventures were only just beginning.
After a stint at the storied, secretive Los Alamos National Laboratory, Alien was recruited by a top cybersecurity firm where she deployed her cache of virtual weapons—and the trespassing and social engineering talents she had developed while “hacking” at MIT. The company tested its clients’ security by every means possible—not just coding, but donning disguises and sneaking past guards and secretaries into the C‑suite.
Alien now runs a boutique hacking outfit that caters to some of the world’s biggest and most vulnerable institutions—banks, retailers, government agencies. Her work combines devilish charm, old‑school deception, and next generation spycraft. In Breaking and Entering, cybersecurity finally gets the rich, character‑driven, fast-paced treatment it deserves.
Real life thriller I came to MIT the year after Alien and lived in the same dorm on a different hall. While I didn't know Alien personally, I knew of her, and I remember many of the events and mindsets in the first parts of this book vividly. It's always fascinating to hear where life takes my fellow MIT alumni and how the experience changes and shapes you. This book was absolutely riveting from cover to cover. I inhaled it on a 9hour flight to Frankfurt. I highly recommend it for a true story of a brilliant person finding herself and changing the world.Interesting and Scary Story This well-written and fascinating book tells the (supposedly true) story of "Alien," a young woman who graduates from MIT, and later pursues a high-level career in computer security. The story can be read in three major parts:1) Her college life focuses on her youthful "adventures,"including drug use, sexual explorations, and borderline criminal activities (trespassing into forbidden spaces and buildings at college) which are candidly described. She becomes interested in computer science, and discovers her talents in this field.2) The story gets much more interesting (at least for me) after she graduates, and becomes a computer security professional. She learns how to help her clients (private companies and public agencies) deal with malevolent computer hackers and other criminals, who are generally much more advanced and effective than her clients are willing or able to defend against. She leads "red team" 3 pronged attacks on a client's security, including successfully hacking into their computer system, sending phishing emails, and using social engineering to gain physical access to sensitive areas. She is so good at the last type of attack that she sometimes actually walks off the premises with a computer (loaded with sensitive data).3) In the last part of the book, Alien builds her own computer security firm, learning as she goes, and overcoming the stresses involved. The author provides quite a lot of detail about her team's frequent successful penetrations of security systems of banks, large retailers, and other corporate clients.According to the author, only a small percentage of successful hacks are publicly known, and the risks to our society are much greater than acknowledged. After reading this book, you will probably become even more paranoid with good reason.Amazing true story about a young female hacker Amazing story of a young woman who starts out as a hacker at MIT, and now runs her own company hacker-testing security for banks, and miscellaneous businesses. Wow, what a story.
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