I reflected on the books I’ve read over the past five years and selected 15 recommendations. While my perspective is rooted in #security, #infosec & #riskmanagement, I believe these titles offer valuable insights for professionals across various fields.

You know NSA, CIA and FBI. How about these 15 other intelligence agencies that make up the US Intelligence Community?

"Financially motivated cyber intrusions, even those without any ties to state goals, harm national security." #cybersecurity #security #safety #privacy #crime

"The most alarming aspect is the systematic dismantling of security measures that would detect and prevent misuse by removing the career officials in charge of those #security measures and replacing them with inexperienced operators."

"Nordic investment portal Nordnet suffered a fault on that allowed some users to see information associated with others' accounts." #cybersecurity #infosec #privacy

"CAPTCHAs are ineffective at actually preventing bot traffic, they introduce privacy concerns through tracking cookies, have wasted millions of hours of our collective time, and generated nearly a trillion dollars worth of data for Google."

Department of Gaffes and Exposures? #security #safety #privacy

"IT departments are crafting increasingly sensational ruses in what they say is a necessary response to increasingly sophisticated scams. Employees say they sow chaos, confusion and shame." #cybersecurity #phishing

The CEO of @Klarna @klarnaseb said that #AI had allowed his company to reduce its overall head count from 5,000 to 4,000. He expected Klarna’s work force to eventually fall to about 2,000 as a result of its AI adoption.

"The total volume of ransom payments decreased year-over-year by ~35%, driven by increased law enforcement actions, improved international collaboration, and a growing refusal by victims to pay." @chainalysis #cybersecurity #ransomware

Did you forget your PIN-code? Try 1234, 1111 and 0000. #security #safety #privacy

“This is the largest #databreach and the largest IT #security breach in our country’s history." #DOGE #fail #privacy #safety

"Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) recently confirmed a cyberattack where Russian state-sponsored hackers accessed sensitive employee data through the company’s Office 365 email environment in May 2023." #cybersecurity

"19-year-old working for Elon Musk‘s DOGE was given access to sensitive US government systems even though his past association with cybercrime communities should have precluded him from gaining the necessary security clearances to do so."

"It feels like no one should have to say this, and yet we are in a situation where it needs to be said, very loudly and clearly, before it’s too late to do anything about it: The United States is not a startup. If you run it like one, it will break."

"The Finnish #AI Landscape 2025 report, provides an overview of the current state of AI adoption and development in Finland."

"Card testing attacks (Card Not Present) is a type of #fraud scheme in which the fraudster tries to verify the stolen credit card details by making small unnoticed purchases across various websites."

"If you would have asked me a week ago, I'd have told you that this kind of thing would never in a million years happen. But now, who the fuck knows."

Quantum Supremacy (Michio Kaku): "As Bohr would say: Anyone who is not shocked by the quantum theory does not understand it." book #quote

"We ended up discovering ~150 Amazon S3 buckets that had previously been used across commercial and open source software products, governments, and infrastructure deployment/update pipelines - and then abandoned." #cybersecurity #cloud

"Google’s updated, public #AI ethics policy removes its promise that it won’t use the technology to pursue applications for weapons and surveillance."