new to mastodon, new to cybersecurity
looking for a place to start my career, connecting with people in the industry and information of all sorts regarding cybersecurity!
here to learn!
hey all!
risk is still a difficult concept for me to understand. it seems everybody in infosec has their own take on it. what's yours? #riskmanagement #consultants
Finally got my copy of @a_greenberg
Tracers in the Dark: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency.
POC done 🙂
When I Bookmark something, it's just for me.
When I Like something, it's just for me and the person who made the post.
When I boost something, it's because I want to share it with others.
There's no software in the background recording and evaluating my behavior so it can decide the best ads to show me, and what I should see or not see in my feed to increase my engagement.
It's pretty nice not being the product anymore and just enjoying the web again.
#Mastodon & #TwitterMigration FTW
Researchers with the Chaos Computer Club bought items on eBay that turned out to have stored iris scans of 2,632 people, mostly from people living in Iraq and Afghanistan. But also data from members of the U.S. Army:
From the NYT:
"detailed descriptions of individuals in addition to their photograph and biometric data, could be enough to target people who were previously unknown to have worked with U.S. military forces should the information fall into the wrong hands"
NYT has a writeup here: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/27/technology/for-sale-on-ebay-a-military-database-of-fingerprints-and-iris-scans.html?unlocked_article_code=AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACEIPuonUktbfqYhlSlUZBCbJUNMnqBqCgvfeh7I7nDrlJSyYDDFEiukfCpnF8gLIZK5ie9IpznGXTcNIOrY0Sbl1wKpRPkpiRhOwuJqChI9AKiM57IOpX3hzxJnEW6t-8SPvaiPxDtZD84CFnkDMNimsU7rCgTZnfFw79Y1mcln53X1YlLPHErV2xtV_2vs-D814FiNRbHXZ6KXoXxooa9-Wf1qLvFlNLuJcWTzTnNOd6atRM1kBTAKbEw4spDo0-9heO9gIPK3gLBBGecv2hbQZCGwAP57-TtRqBNCSz-M2xOaL_R-cy8O2xeE0FLFXvd7Gu2W9PVUuQNCGLdh1nu1h24vFimy7MldCiUA (the utm ensures you can read the article without subscription)
My former colleagues at BR have been working on this story for many months now. If you understand the German language, I encourage you to listen to their hourlong feature on #biometry https://www.ardaudiothek.de/episode/ard-radiofeature/verraeterische-daten-doku-ueber-die-gefahren-der-biometrie/ard/12204469/ It includes the case of the military database but much more as well
#introduction
hey all! I'm in my thirties and was working in the education sector up until now where I was the project lead of a digital transformation project. during this time I first came into contact with #cybersecurity, as we did an ISO27100 cert. for our project.
I have a degree in linguistics, so my «technical background» stems from my interest in IT and not from university training. during the main lockdown about two years ago I decided to dive into #linux which gave me a lot of insight and the possibility to dabble with #hacking on sites like TMH and HTB. I was always interested in IT but only since I had those expieriences, I was confident enough to pursue a new career in this field.
I am currently learning a lot, and preparing for various certs like #cissp to get to a career change in cybersecurity.
On here I will mostly ask dumb questions and lurk around until I am confident enough to post my own content 
kirushanr
Jon Henshaw
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Kevin Collier