Title: Breaking and Entering Pdf The Extraordinary Story of a Hacker Called"Alien"
This taut, true thriller takes a deep dive into a dark world that touches us all, as seen through the brilliant, breakneck career of an extraordinary hacker - a woman known only as Alien.
When she arrived at MIT in the 1990s, Alien wanted to study aerospace engineering, but she was soon drawn to the school's venerable tradition of high-risk physical trespassing: the original "hacking". Within a year, one of her hallmates was dead, two others were on trial, and two had been institutionalized. 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 large cache of virtual weapons - and the trespassing and social engineering talents she first 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. (She once got into the vault of a major bank by posing as its auditor.)
Alien now runs her own 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, pacey treatment it deserves.
The personality of a hacker I liked that this book covered Alien's time at MIT, and it was believable, not varnished over. It talked about adderal & acid, and friends who pushed too far. It was a coming of age story that's rarely told but well told. I liked that it described the Los Alamos work environment and later how she tired of working for other people and started her own business. The book has a little Linux and Unix, but not a lot of Windows techie language. It's enough to give it flavor. There's a lot to like if you want to sample the field. It shows discrimination is similar for women in information technology as well as all fields and how Alien dealt with it. I would have given it five stars except I'm picky about words. Sometimes descriptions of men in Alien's life played on the surface though I doubt many readers will notice.Our Computerized Society is at Risk This well-written and interesting book will open your eyes to the computer security risks we all face. Simply put, our banks, retailers, public agencies, power grid, and other essential organizations are more vulnerable than I realized. This is the theme underlying the story of "Alien," a young woman who graduates from MIT, and becomes a high level computer security professional, eventually starting her own firm. Since some readers apparently wonder about the accuracy of this story, it now known that Alien is indeed a real person: Sherri Davidoff, who has given several recent public interviews, and owns/manages a successful computer security company based in Montana.The best aspects of this book for me are:1) Behind the scenes fascinating accounts of how Alien runs "Red Team" attacks (usually successful) on her clients, including large corporations and public agencies Her team uses computer hacking, phishing e-mails, and social engineering to penetrate layers of security protecting sensitive data. The relative ease with which they do this is astonishing and frightening.2) Alien's story illustrates without being preachy how a woman overcomes sexual discrimination (both subtle and overt) to succeed in a male-dominated field, and how she starts and grows her own business. As a personal opinion, I'm surprised at some of the sexist comments from some other reviewers concerning her professional success.On the other hand, I thought that the first part of this book spent too much time on Alien's college years, which I frankly found boring, as she engages in various adolescent adventures (and I thought MIT students studied all of the time). In addition, I wanted to hear directly from Alien herself, instead of always through the author.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.
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