50 shades of stolen data
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Move over busty damsels, chiseled, rich beaus, and the sizzling plots made for beach reading, the cybersecurity world has its own list of hot summer reads. Apparently.
The book blog DarkReading.com this month launched its list of “8 Hot Summer Fiction Reads for Cybersecurity Pros.”
Think: tales of cyberattacks and human-chip implants; hackers battling to thwart an evil company from taking over the world via human-chip implants; one woman’s plan to hack a fashion show in an attempt to stage a career comeback in the fashion world; a CIA operative who was hung out to dry by the agency and looks to take his revenge on the people who made him rot in a cell for a year and destroyed his family.
(Cue: the sizzle.)
“Do cybersecurity professionals ever relax?,” begs the blog. “Some tell us that they don't read cyber-themed novels in their off-hours, but we know there are still many readers out there who can’t get enough of what’s become a burgeoning genre in the last decade or more: the spy novel tinged with lots of good security themes and tech.”
