Books by Herbert Lin
Bytes, Bombs, and Spies: The Strategic Dimensions of Offensive Cyber Operations
by Amy Zegart & Herbert Lin
“It talks a lot about Chinese espionage from the People’s Liberation Army unit 61398.
They are a really interesting unit set up in about 2011 and very actively stealing corporate information on behalf of Chinese companies. They use US college campuses very effectively to exfiltrate information from companies. It’s totally fascinating. First of all, it lasts for so long. It goes on for years and years and years in the same US steel companies as well as Siemens Westinghouse. They’ve got access to every email and every server. They steal so much information and it’s so hard to understand what they do with it.
The narrative of US-China cyber espionage in terms of popular discussion often centers on this idea of ‘they’re stealing intellectual property and ruining US companies.’ You steal the intellectual property and then you make the iPhone. But that’s not at all how it works. Instead it’s all about, ‘Do we know how they’re going to come into this trade negotiation? Can we use this information to our advantage at all?’ I don’t mean to dismiss the threat of economic espionage, it’s just that the actual arc of it is very slow and very complicated and very hard to pull out. It’s very hard to show that, ‘Well, you only did that because of this information you stole.’”—Josephine Wolf on the best cyber security books.
Interviews where books by Herbert Lin were recommended
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Spam Nation: The Inside Story of Organized Cybercrime-from Global Epidemic to Your Front Door
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Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon
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Worm: The First Digital World War
by Mark Bowden -
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Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War
by Fred Kaplan -
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Bytes, Bombs, and Spies: The Strategic Dimensions of Offensive Cyber Operations
by Amy Zegart & Herbert Lin
The Best Cyber Security Books, recommended by Josephine Wolff
The Best Cyber Security Books, recommended by Josephine Wolff
Not all important subjects make good reading, but cyber security is an exception: not only do we all need to know about and take responsibility for it, but it also generates nonfiction books worthy of John le Carré. Cyber security and policy expert Josephine Wolff, author of You’ll see this message when it is too late, recommends the best cyber security books.
