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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. From there, the hackers can change passwords and add security keys or two-factor authentication, and usually, they proceed to commit a crime.

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The Hacker Mind: Shattering InfoSec's Glass Ceiling

ForAllSecure

And I was really fortunate to land the security beat right away. I wrote two books, one on IoT Security and another with Kevin Mitnick, then jumped around a couple of different jobs. What if you are a woman in information security? WANG : it was the security security practice. By accident. So I learned.

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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. Technology Security.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Real World Criminals Online

ForAllSecure

Let's analyze malware. And so, myself and another individual named Rob Farrell, we were brought in to start a security team. of pleasure, or rage, where operational security levels are much lower. CLEMENS: That was just in that just being nerdy, you know. And I started a small mailing list after that called packet ninjas.