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Here's A New Forum for Cybersecurity Leaders Outside of the Fortune 2000

The Hacker News

Perhaps due to the nature of the position, the InfoSec leadership roles tend to be solitary ones.

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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. I know there was a period when several InfoSec people, myself included, said we will not be on panels unless there's diversity represented on said panel. That is, until Chenxi Wang spoke up. So I learned. And it should.

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Episode 232: Log4j Won’t Go Away (And What To Do About It.)

The Security Ledger

If you’ve been paying attention to your infosec news feed this week, you’ve been inundated with stories and headlines about something called “log4j, a (previously) obscure library that is a common component of a number of Apache software frameworks. That’s out of a total population of 7.1

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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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Best cloud security certifications to make a great career

CyberSecurity Insiders

Those with an IT background and some knowledge about Infosec can pursue the course and exam. And the cost of the exam is $2000 that requires 75 questions to answer. Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP)- ISC² offers the CCSP certification and for an annual fees of $136 and the exam at the cost of $612.

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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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