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The Hacker Mind: Shattering InfoSec's Glass Ceiling

ForAllSecure

Booth babes and rampant sexism were more of a problem in infosec in the past. I went to Black Hat in 2000. It’s about challenging our expectations about the people who hack for a living. WANG : In leadership roles, I don't know that I think the overall percentage of women in cyber InfoSec is like 22%.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Healthcare

ForAllSecure

And what parallels might infosec learn from COVID-19? In this episode, Mike Ahmadi draws on his years of experience in infosec, his years hacking medical devices. Listen to EP 12: Hacking Healthcare. It’s about challenging our expectations about people who hack for a living. What if they don’t?

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Healthcare

ForAllSecure

And what parallels might infosec learn from COVID-19? In this episode, Mike Ahmadi draws on his years of experience in infosec, his years hacking medical devices. Listen to EP 12: Hacking Healthcare. It’s about challenging our expectations about people who hack for a living. What if they don’t?

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Malicious Life Podcast: Inside Operation Flyhook Part 1

Security Boulevard

Alexey Ivanov was exactly the kind of person to benefit from the early-2000's dot-com boom: he was bright, talented and really knew his stuff. His only problem was the fact that he was born in Chelyabinsk, a sleepy Russian town in the middle of nowhere. When he sent his résumé to American companies, nobody was willing to bet on him.

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Telegram CVE-2018-17780 flaw causes the leak of IP addresses when initiating calls

Security Affairs

link] #infosec #bugbounty. This bug was awarded €2000 by Telegram security team. Strangely tdesktop 1.3.14 and Telegram for windows (3.3.0.0 leaks end-user private and public IP address while making calls. telegram unsafe default behavior of P2P leaks IP address, and CVE-2018-17780 is assigned to this. beta and v1.4.0

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2021 Hispanic Heritage Month Pt. 1: A Celebration of Hispanic Heritage and Hope

McAfee

He recognized my passion for infosec (it wasn’t called cyber back then) and provided me with the support needed to make my ideas and projects a reality. Thanks to him I was able to co-found one of the first infosec consulting businesses in Spain in 2000, and I’m still very grateful for that opportunity. it’s on LinkedIn too).

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‘I vowed I was going to teach people’: NPower’s trauma-informed training nurtures digital talent

SC Magazine

As an infosec leader, Vaughn witnessed first-hand the dearth of available IT talent that’s available to hire. Founded in 2000, the nonprofit aims to “launch pathways for prosperity and economic mobility, particularly by helping to launch digital careers,” said Vaughn.