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Facebook Flaws and Privacy Laws: A Journey into Early Social Media Security from 2009

Security Boulevard

Travel back to 2009 with the second-ever episode featuring discussions on early Facebook bugs, cross-site scripting vulnerabilities, and a pivotal Canadian privacy ruling involving Facebook. The post Facebook Flaws and Privacy Laws: A Journey into Early Social Media Security from 2009 appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Emergency Satellite Messaging, Stagnation in User Cybersecurity Habits

Security Boulevard

In the milestone 350th episode of the Shared Security Podcast, the hosts reflect on 15 years of podcasting, and the podcast’s evolution from its beginnings in 2009. They discuss the impact of a current hurricane on Florida, offering advice on using iPhone and Android satellite communication features during emergencies.

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Cybaze-Yoroi ZLab analyze GoBrut: A new GoLang Botnet

Security Affairs

Malware written in Go programming language has roots almost a decade ago, few years after its first public release back in 2009: starting from InfoStealer samples discovered since 2012 and abused in cyber-criminal campaigns, to modern cyber arsenal like the Sofacy one. Introduction.

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Burnout: The Hidden Cost of Working in Cybersecurity & Other High Risk Fields

Jane Frankland

In this blog, and ahead of my talk at Infosec this week , I’m delving into this, and giving you tips for recognising its signs and preventing it as a leader. Although I was ahead of the times then, I believe leaders now must prioritise the mental health and wellbeing of themselves and their teams. It poses a threat in numerous ways.

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Episode 255: EDM, Meet CDM – Cyber Dance Music with Niels Provos

The Security Ledger

Niels Provos, Head of Security Efficacy at Lacework Niels’ subsequent work included a stint as the Head of Security at payments startup Stripe.

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Meet the 2021 SC Awards judges

SC Magazine

Over his 25+ year career, Poe worked in several other significant infosec related roles, most notably as chief technology officer of United Way of Greater St. Currently the head of cybersecurity at Davis Polk, he has also directed departments in InfoSec operations, network engineering, messaging and end point support.

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

Kali Linux

In February 2009, at Shmoocon, BackTrack 4 “Beta” was released using Ubuntu. A graphical one happened in BackTrack 4 “Pre-Final” in June 2009. In information security (infosec) there is the need to be on the latest version. Both from an upstream side of things (Debian), as well as the infosec industry.

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