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The cybersecurity researcher Dan Kaminsky has died

Security Affairs

One of the brightest lights in infosec and probably the kindest soul I knew. Dan Kaminsky was very active in the cyber security community, he was a regular speaker at major cybersecurity and hacking conferences, including Black Hat and DEFCON. At the moment the causes of death are not known, but it does not matter.

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Meet the 2021 SC Awards judges

SC Magazine

He retired as a colonel in 2010. Prior to Mastercard, Abdullah was the chief information security officer at Xerox, where she established and led a corporate-wide information risk management program. She also served as the deputy chief information officer of the White House.

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

Kali Linux

With the launch the first stable release of BackTrack 4 in January 2010, the project got its own domain ( backtrack-linux.org ) and moved off remote-exploit. As this was not a “Long-Term Support” (LTS) release, upstream would only support it until April 2010 - one year & six months. How did you pick the name?

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Remote sex toys might spice up your love life – but crooks could also get a kick out of them?

Security Affairs

Remote-control sex toys have been around since 2010. What is more, in 2017, Italian infosec researcher Giovanni Mellini revealed in a blog post that he had successfully hacked a Lovense butt plug sex toy using a Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) scanner. Back then, as smartphones were not as popular, these toys were controlled by Skype.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Communities

ForAllSecure

As we head to Hacker Summer Camp, how should we rebuild our infosec communities to be more inclusive and diverse? I'm attending in person this year, as are a lot of people in the InfoSec world. Rather, I choose to see this as a fresh start to create a new community within InfoSec. Jack Daniel offers his unique voice.

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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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