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A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.
Sanity Finally Reigns in Iowa
From Brian Krebs: Dallas County, Iowa has dropped trespassing charges against two penetration testers who were arrested and jailed last year on September 11, and held in jail until yesterday for doing the job they were hired to do The news broke as Brian was in the middle of a video interview ...
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Believe it or not, the Internet has been with us for 50 years. The Internet has its origins in the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET), which began operation just over 50 years ago, in October 1969, with only two nodes. By December there were four nodes, at UCLA, Stanford, UC Santa Barbara, and the University ...
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Here is another guest post offered by Josh Wardini, which first appeared in DataProt.
Yesterday was Data Privacy Day. We live in highly connected and insecure times where our personal information is harvested and sold like a crop. Where our every move in the physical world is tracked by GPS in our phones and automobiles. ...
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Keeping your information private is nearly impossible these days. The Internet has turned us all into virtual blabbermouths oversharing everything. And what we aren’t already sharing with wild abandon is being harvested, parsed, analyzed, stored in endless databases, and sold by big Internet companies. Then that information is stolen by cyber-criminals and sold on the Dark Web.
The task of keeping our information private seems impossible, but there still are actions ...
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A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.
UL Pushes Security Standards For The Internet Of Broken Things
from the internet-of-very-broken-things dept
If you hadn’t noticed yet, the internet of things is a security and privacy shit show. Millions of poorly-secured internet-connected devices are now being sold annually, introducing massive new attack vectors and vulnerabilities into home and business networks nationwide. Thanks to IOT companies ...
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We live in a society that places an unwarranted importance on college education. If you are in a STEM education track, a college degree may be worthwhile. If you are in Business Administration, probably less so. The world is awash in business administration and MBA candidates who can’t find jobs in their field, and are working in sales, retail, and food service jobs instead. If you are looking to Liberal ...
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If you are looking for that first job in IT, you can expect to begin on a telephone (remote) support help desk, or in desk side (in person) support, or in a hardware repair facility. If you are coming to your first job with certifications or degrees, but little or no experience, this will be where your career will start. Even if you have a BS in IT and an ...
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Are you looking to break into a career in Information Technology or Cybersecurity? I have been working as an instructor in this field for several years, and I have trained many people, and helped them study for professional certifications so they could do just that.
There is a huge demand for IT and cybersecurity workers, and many job openings go unfilled for long periods of time. But getting in the door ...
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