June 2017 Cybersecurity Reading List

Here are the books on my bookshelf that I'm either excited to read or have recently read:

• Windows Internals, Part 1, version 7 by Yosifovich, et all from Microsoft Press
• Troubleshooting with the Windows Sysinternals Tools by Russinovich, et all from Microsoft Press
• Learn PowerShell in a Month of Lunches, 3rd Edition by Jones & Hicks
• Practical Forensic Imaging from No Starch Press
• Metasploit, the Penetration Tester's Guide by Kennedy et al from No Starch Press
• Metasploit Toolkit from Syngress
• Linux Firewalls from No Starch Press
• Practical Malware Analysis from No Starch Press
• Practical Packet Analysis 3rd Edition by Chris Sanders from No Starch Press
• Defensive Security Handbook from O'Reilly

And some major breaches you should be aware of:

• Operation Aurora
• Titan Rain
• Target Breach

Things I've already read that you may be interested in:

• Ten Strategies of a World-Class Cybersecurity Operations Center by Carson Zimmerman from MITRE
• I can't recommend this enough. For those that want to "get into security" or want to really take their career to the next level, this is unbeatable.
• The Tao of Network Security Monitoring by Richard Bejtlich
• Real Digital Forensics by Jones, Bejtlich, Rose
• Extrusion Detection by Richard Bejtlich
• The Practice of Network Security Monitoring by Richard Bejtlich from No Starch Press
• The Linux Command Line from No Starch Press

What are you reading? Did you find any of these helpful? Are there other books I should be aware of that are better than these?

Splitting MP3's

Sometimes you need to split long MP3's into smaller chunks. I deal with this with audio books and listening to my SANS classes. (Not my SANS classes. I'm not good enough yet. But, everyone needs something to strive for!)

These are all Linux commands. They should work in most SANS Linux VM's (like the SEC504, SEC511, FOR500, or FOR508 ones). They'll also work under Windows Subsystem for Linux

Anyway, those MP3's from SANS have long, vague filenames. So, I use this script to convert a filename like "SEC511_1A_B01.mp3" to something simple like "1A.mp3":

ls *3 | while read fn ; do nfn=$(echo $fn | cut -f2 -d_) ; mv -vi $fn $nfn.mp3 ; done

First, cd into the directory containing your mp3's. Then, create a directory called split to store the split files (md split). You'll need to install mp3splt by running:
sudo apt-get install mp3splt

Finally(!), this command will split at 5 minute intervals (-t 5.00), store the output in a directory called split (-d split/), and operate on all files in the current directory named *mp3.

mp3splt -f -t 5.00 -d split/ *mp3

That should do it! Any questions?

EDIT: June 4, 2017: Added "-f" option to mp3splt command.