Between Two Nerds: Exploits are not cyber power

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In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq discuss just how important exploits are for cyber operations using data published in a new paper authored by two members of Ukraine’s cyber security agency.

Show notes:

• Exploits were never the point, https://arunninghacker.substack.com/p/exploits-were-never-the-point
• Rethinking Exploitation in Cyber War: Reassessing the Role of Software Exploits in Wartime, https://www.researchgate.net/publication/405494597_Rethinking_Exploitation_in_Cyber_War_Reassessing_the_Role_of_Software_Exploits_in_Wartime
• Max Smeets’ chapter 5 from “No Shortcuts”: The Elements of an Offensive Cyber Capability: https://academic.oup.com/book/44032/chapter-abstract/373134701