News Summary

• In the last 30 years or so, cybersecurity has gone from being a niche specialty to an industry worth more than $170 billion.
• High-profile hacks such as the 2015 Sony breach, the 2016 U.S. election hack and leak operations, and a seemingly endless list of Chinese government hacks have made cybersecurity and hacking go mainstream.
• We have curated our own list of best cybersecurity books, based on the books we have read ourselves, and those that the community suggested on Mastodon and Bluesky.