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Jeff Moss on the Evolution of Hacking at SecTor 2021

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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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The Rise of an Overlooked Crime – Cyberstalking

Security Affairs

The internet has been a blessing since its inception. The very concept of globalization has come into existence just because of the internet. The internet brought with it plenty of benefits, but accompanying these benefits came some evils that were previously not known of. They do this by following you on the internet.

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Information risk and security for professional services

Notice Bored

Professional services are information-centric: information is the work product , the purpose, the key deliverable. Through assignments, jobs, projects or tasks, professional services clients and providers exchange, generate and utilize information.

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The Hacker Mind: Hacking Social Media

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With more than 600K followers on YouTube, LiveOverflow is one of infosec’s first social media influencers. Robert Vamosi: Before there was the internet as we know it today, there were bulletin boards, BBSs. By anyone’s measure that would make him an infosec influencer, would it not? Massive numbers.

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The Hacker Mind: Hacking Social Media

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With more than 600K followers on YouTube, LiveOverflow is one of infosec’s first social media influencers. Robert Vamosi: Before there was the internet as we know it today, there were bulletin boards, BBSs. By anyone’s measure that would make him an infosec influencer, would it not? Massive numbers.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Real World Criminals Online

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That, of course, was not all, but it is an example of how someone -- anyone on the internet -- can take a photo or blog post or Yelp review from social media, or some other seemingly random open source item and tie it back to a crime. Which then I could configure to get on the internet, you know. Daniel, he keeps a low profile.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Surviving Stalkerware

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The Federal Trade Commission in the United States, banned an app called SpyPhone, and its CEO Scott Zuckerman, from operating in the surveillance industry. Fortunately, there are those in the InfoSec world, who are actively looking at the subject and speaking out at conferences, such as Black Hat. In early September 2021.