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Many ask me, "What's the best way to learn cybersecurity?"

Learning cybersecurity is a lifelong journey, not a destination. 🌎🚀

Embrace discomfort: New tech, new threats, new tools 🌪️

Share what you learn 🗣️🤝

Stay practical 💻🔨

#infosec #learner #security #engineering

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Phishing emails: Because every prince really needs YOUR help to move his fortune 💰😂

Quick tips:

Check sender emails twice 🔍👀

If an offer seems too good to be true, congrats—it probably is! 🎉🙄

Links begging to be clicked usually lead to regrets 🚫🖱️

#phishing #hack

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In April, UK retail Marks & Spencer (M&S) faced a cyberattack that ended up with losses up to £125 million 📉.

What can we learn from this? 🤔

🔗⚠️ Protect Your Digital Supply Chain
🚨⏳ Incident Response Matters
📢🤝 Trust Takes Years to Build, Seconds to Break:

#infosec

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Tips to break into Information Security: 🔐

Master the basics of Networking, systems administration, and scripting
Spin up labs or participate in CTFs
Follow news, dissect breaches, ask questions. 🧠🔍

Engage with communities, forums:

#infosec #hacking

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Cybersecurity is about shifting mindsets. 🔒🧠
The latest attacks, including the Coinbase incident, highlight this:

Security is everyone's responsibility. 👥✅

Technology alone won't save you. 🤖🚫

Culture eats strategy for breakfast. 🍽️🏢

#infosec #security #coinbase #hack

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Some of the points specially about Adobe is very concerning for average consumers. I know in a lot of countries this practice is considered acceptable but leaves a very bad taste if your delivery isn't 100% on the mark!

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Productivity gurus will tell you that you need to have "SMART" goals.

Every monday spend 15 extra minutes thinking about "AMBIGUOUS" goals!

+ They don't need to be clearly fleshed out
+ The problem statement can be unclear
+ Just write it down and think!

#goalsetting

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When you finally catch the bug in your code and it's Friday!

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Real life photo of a "pre-hacked" cyber security of a company!

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When the Secure Intrusion Detection System worked and you block the attack! 😎 🖖

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You selected computers because you were bad in language skills. But you joined a company and its...

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Fingerprints, facial recognition and other PII from Biostar 2, a biometrics based physical security company, discovered on publicly accessible database.

Security team:
Please rotate your credentials!

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I saw a very weird person today at Starbucks. He had no smartphone, tablet or laptop. He just sat there drinking his coffee. What a psychopath!

#infosec

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Shortcut to Secure System Design

- Walk to the coffee place
- Finish your coffee
- Walk back to the coffee place, to refill your coffee

☕

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Number of days without seeing some CEO talk about Deepseek in my feed:

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All the project needs now is a code review

The code:

#infosec

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All you need is a laptop and an internet connection!

#infosec