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Socks! Our cyber prediction for 2024

Pen Test Partners

Pen Test Partners PTP started in 2010. Back to the Infosec Show in 2011 and the ever-popular socks got another outing. In 2016 we were (rightly) challenged at Infosec that we weren’t offering longer socks for women and people who preferred to wear wellington boots, in a Paddington Bear style. Here’s a pair of that iteration.

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Is India's Aadhaar System Really "Hack-Proof"? Assessing a Publicly Observable Security Posture

Troy Hunt

I ended up moving this section after the miscellaneous one simply because of this: We've seen a 2016 copyright, a 2010 copyright and now a 2013 copyright published on a 2014 page! Blocking Paste. Again, see comments above re why this is odd.

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Malicious Life Podcast: The Jester – Hacktivist for Good

Security Boulevard

The Jester is a patriotic, pro-American Hacktivist that since 2010 has waged a personal cyberwar against an array of targets he considers to be “the bad guys.” But detractors have insinuated that some of the Jester's operations were little more than internet sleight-of-hand. So, who is The Jester and what can we make of his reported exploits?

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Meet the 2021 SC Awards judges

SC Magazine

He retired as a colonel in 2010. 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. Cedric Leighton is founder and president of Cedric Leighton Associates, a strategic risk and leadership management consultancy.

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The weirdest security stories of 2022

Malwarebytes

To be more precise, 2010, 2016, and now 2022 with a whole new astronaut to recover. So yes, it’s weird…but it’s just a one off. Turns out this baffling attempt at parting people from their money would come back around every so often.

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Why are you ignoring NIST, NSA and the NCSC?

IT Security Guru

John Kindervag first coined the phrase “Zero Trust” and published his first blogs on the subject in 2010. As Robin Oldham remarked in his weekly infosec newsletter “ If true —then the company’s culture, practices, technical solutions, or assure activities must also have therefore been pretty spectacularly lax.

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‘Every day is game day:’ Sports psychology expert applies his skills to cybersecurity

SC Magazine

How do you coach athletes or infosec experts to handle pressurized situations? You were coaching in the Giants organization when they won the three World Series in 2010, 2012 and 2014. And so it’s helping them build those strategies so they can be their best each and every day. What was that like? I learned more than I contributed.