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Jeff Moss on the Evolution of Hacking at SecTor 2021

ForAllSecure

Moss also said that all hacking is not infosec and that all infosec is not hacking. Where with infosec the goal is to produce income. ” This set up a basic dichotomy throughout his talk in that hacking doesn’t require professionalism just curiosity and Infosec does require professionalism but not always curiosity.

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Happy 10th anniversary & Kali's story.so far

Kali Linux

This lead into WHAX in 2005, which used Slax. Merging into BackTrack At the same time, there was a similar project happening over at remote-exploit, Auditor Security Collection (based on Knoppix), which first started in 2005. In information security (infosec) there is the need to be on the latest version.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: What Star Wars Can Teach Us About Threat Modeling

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Having a common framework around vulnerabilities, around threats , helps us understand the infosec landscape better. Adam has more than 20 years in the infosec world, and he even helped create the CVE system that we all use today. SHOSTACK: So, um, you come again, came about, actually in 2005. STRIDE provides an easy mnemonic.

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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. RSAC also attracts some of the top researchers in infosec. So back in 2005, Microsoft offered, you know, $25,000 to have somebody turn in a malware writer back.