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The anatomy of a Facebook account heist

Vox

He now works as a threat hunter at the National Cyber Security Center (NCSC) in Vietnam, in addition to serving as the co-founder of Chống Lừa Đảo, an anti-scam nonprofit. In the beginning, the hack seemed to progress mostly via malware found in fake ChatGPT downloads and ads for these bogus extensions right on Facebook.

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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. When they did that.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Real World Criminals Online

ForAllSecure

Let's analyze malware. the whole system and some of the FBI in general, you know, like, I think that the way that they treat people just in the information security community is a little I don't know, it's entitled. CLEMENS: That was just in that just being nerdy, you know. Let's analyze stuff. Let's analyze exploits.