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The anatomy of a Facebook account heist

Vox

While many people might think of Russian state-sponsored hacking groups when it comes to infiltrating social media platforms, there’s actually a global network of hackers participating in an underground economy where things like Facebook and Instagram accounts are commodities. Exactly how hackers go after legitimate accounts varies.

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The Hacker Mind: Shattering InfoSec's Glass Ceiling

ForAllSecure

What if you are a woman in information security? I’m Robert Vamosi, and in the episode I’m talking about diversity, equality, and inclusion in information security with one of the industries' most successful examples. So I also have recently launched a nonprofit called the Forte group.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Industrial Control Systems

ForAllSecure

They also had a piece of malware called killdisk position on the systems so that when the systems rebooted, it would kick off deleting all the files and deleting all the systems. In a moment I’ll introduce you to someone who is trying to do that--bring ICS equipment to security conferences. Well, nothing’s impossible.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Real World Criminals Online

ForAllSecure

Right, there's, there's a method, a countercultural method to it that isn't defined by a group dynamic. And fold up all the different groups that they were joining and that actually turned into a case called Operation Candyman where I think there's over 5000 pedophiles arrested in a in a fairly short amount of time.