Security Gumshoe Makes His Mark

Security Gumshoe Makes His Mark
In this riveting, yet darkly comedic serial security tale from Mark Robertson, social engineering consultant and CTO, a security gumshoe named Chip Byte and Elisa Pascal, gumshoette, track unscrupulous mercenaries, crackers, hackers and shady characters — including the powerful Dr. DelTree — to protect businesses against security threats.

To learn more about these street-smart security defenders (and how to secure your organization), click on the links and read each story segment …

From PART I – She ashed her cigar and said, “Protect your networks first, and tell your people to button it, not to talk so much, ’cause you don’t want people like me snoopin’ around for big money.”

From PART IV – Oh man, the owner of this notebook had assumed a few things:

1. It would never get stolen.
2. No one would ever look at the contacts and their information.
3. No one would ever open the financial software.
4. No one would ever know how to look at a spreadsheet.
5. No one would ever undelete and look at every single keystroke up to over 90 levels of undelete.
6. No one would ever read what was in the cache including the unprotected chat text.
7. Anyone who found it wouldn’t care about the kind of work he did.

 

From PART V – The first thing I do when a computer disaster strikes is take inventory. What caused the situation is important, but the most important thing is—what do I have left that is usable? What is salvageable? What is totally write off-able? Where are my backups? Is there a safe place to go to regroup and strategize? I was mad at myself for not having a plan. Just a tiny little plan for when things went haywire. I hate having to respond to a crisis in the middle of a mini-Armageddon, which this turned out to be.

From PART VII – She opened a small lipstick; in one end was her color, the other end contained one bullet. On the counter in her kitchen was an open package of peach gelatin. Beside it was a PC board with etchings on it. I knew what this was right away. Biometric cracking 101. It was an old trick, but still effective. I hoped Elisa would figure out that her fingerprint-scanning USB memory stick was compromised.

From PART VII – I rammed the USB driver into my USB port. I read the only file on it: “GOOD BYE.” Not again! I threw my notebook out the window and waited for the explosion. None this time. Boy, did I feel stupid. That was a great notebook, too.

[1] PART VIII – Security Gumshoette Closes the Case [Remidiator Security Digest]
[2] Security Gumshoe Makes His Mark [Remidiator Security Digest]