Security Through Education

JANUARY 18, 2023

The truth is technology has grown at an exponential rate and so has cybercrime. Cybercrime doesn’t just affect big businesses and national governments. Use strong passwords, and ideally a password manager to generate and store unique passwords. Update your software. Turn on automatic updates.

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Daniel Miessler

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

And the media doesn’t help either, not to mention InfoSec marketing departments. As far as they’re concerned, if you don’t say the name of your password manager 7 times before bed the Dark Web will haunt your closet. People talk about it like it’s the Internet Demogorgon.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

I seem to be doing most of that activity now on Mastodon , which appears to have absorbed most of the infosec refugees from Twitter, and in any case is proving to be a far more useful, civil and constructive place to post such things. 24, Russia invades Ukraine, and fault lines quickly begin to appear in the cybercrime underground.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Brian Krebs is an independent investigative reporter known for his coverage of technology, malware , data breaches , and cybercrime developments. Normally account take overs are due to insecure passwords or recovery options, this is definitely something different. Markstedter actively contributes to filling the infosec education gap.

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