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Top Cybersecurity Accounts to Follow on Twitter

eSecurity Planet

Shah provides her expertise in hacking, software development, and kernel development and advocates for open source initiatives. Lots of accounts including Bezos, Elon Musk, Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Bill Gates, Mr Beast, and a ton more getting hacked for a bitcoin scheme. — Dave Kennedy (@HackingDave) July 15, 2020.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Learn Competitive Hacking with picoCTF

ForAllSecure

PPP wanted to give their past high school selves the infosec education they didn’t have. Megan Kerns of Carnegie-Mellon University joins The Hacker Mind to talk about the early days and the continued evolution of this popular online infosec competition site. in InfoSec however, learning happens 365 days a year.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Real World Criminals Online

ForAllSecure

It’s about challenging our expectations about the people who hack for a living. He’s been around the hacking scene since the late 1990s, he knows a few people, and he has contributed a lot to the industry. He started hacking in the 1990s. VAMOSI: In infosec we talk a lot about OpSec, good and bad.

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Security Roundup October 2021

BH Consulting

A pledge to prevent harassment of infosec professionals. MORE Educational videos that teach how to hack? MORE A public database of supply chain compromises going back to 2003. We also cover this attack vector in our comprehensive white paper on ransomware. More information about the campaign is at Respectinsecurity.org.

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Security Compliance & Data Privacy Regulations

eSecurity Planet

M]uch of InfoSec management falls back on employee training and avoiding employee error – particularly with respect to phishing , spear phishing, and encryption lapses.”. Trotter further argued that encryption of Anthem’s data at rest would have offered only minimal security benefits and would not have prevented the hack.

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AA privacy breach --> policy update?

Notice Bored

According to a Radio New Zealand news report today: "Hackers have taken names, addresses, contact details and expired credit card numbers from the AA Traveller website used between 2003 and 2018. AA travel and tourism general manager Greg Leighton said the data was taken in August last year and AA Traveller found out in March.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: The Fog of Cyber War

ForAllSecure

There’s an online war in Ukraine, one that you haven’t heard much about because that country is holding its own with an army of infosec volunteers worldwide. It’s about challenging our expectations about the people who hack for a living. RSAC also attracts some of the top researchers in infosec.