Rick's First Principles Newsletter
Rick HowardI study cybersecurity strategies that buy down business risk.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 90 | Founded | 6 years ago | Last Issue | 9 days ago |
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DEF CON and Black Hat and BSides, Oh My
Let’s get ready to rumble!!
The DEF CON / Black Hat / BSides conferences are happening this week. It’s a time when the entire industry shuts down, everybody either travels to the mythical city of Las Vegas to attend or wishes they could,...
BlackHat Appearance
Next week, I’m making my annual pilgrimage to the world’s great hacker mecca: BlackHat 2026. I’ll be signing copies of Cybersecurity First Principles at the conference bookstore. If you’re in Vegas for the conference, I’d love to meet you...
Kill Chain: Inside North Korea's $100M Bridge Heist:
I’m supposed to be an expert on nation-state hacking. I’d never heard of one of North Korea’s biggest crypto heists until last week.
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I just finished listening to the second season of Nicole Perlroth’s...
The Last Competitive Advantage
What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book because there would be no one who wanted to read one.
— Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death
Stats from Rose Horowit...
What a Cat and a Man in Heart Boxers Can Teach You About Storytelling
The hero wears heart boxers and no shoes. His sidekick is a cat. By the end of Book 3, I was genuinely worried about both of them.
I’m thoroughly enjoying Matt Dinniman’s series. In my reviews of the first two books, I said that the premis...
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