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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. The Twistlock was a company I joined after Intel security was a startup.

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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. When they did that.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Real World Criminals Online

ForAllSecure

You got into a network. CLEMENS: And really I was just starting that in the vein of old DEF CON and 2600 stuff where it was, we should share information. But I was given a Class A network, and I deployed as many snort sensors on it all over. Let's analyze malware. We just wanted to explore the phone networks.