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Cybercrime Groups Offer Six-Figure Salaries

AJ Vicens, reporting at Cyperscoop, about the high salaries groups are using to lure skilled software developers in to a life of crime: And just as the cybersecurity market is competing for the best talent, cybercriminals are also offering high salaries and perks to attract the best. Some ads boasted annual salaries as high as $1.

Twitter Says That Stolen Data From Them Isn’t From Them

If you have given up on following news about Twitter, I don’t blame you, but there as been a batch of ~400 million user records being sold online and marketed as coming from breaching Twitter’s systems. Today Twitter is saying that there was “no evidence” of that data coming from Twitter’s systems.

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What Is the New Flipper Zero Hacking Device?

The Flipper Zero is a latest hacker tool to hit the market. It’s still early in it’s development bit it already sports a variety of functions that can allow for unauthorized access and malicious code execution. I have one, I love it already, and I spent the weekend playing around and hanging out on the Discord channel.

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QR Codes Are Bad

We were done with QR codes (pretty much). Do you remember 2019? I think I saw one or two QR codes the whole year, but then 2020 hits, COVID comes in hot, and all of a sudden QR codes are back from the dead in every restaurant. Now, everyone’s talking about that damn Super Bowl commercial.

DEFCON 28 Wrap Up

DEFCON, the world’s largest hacking convention and always one of the highlights of my year, was last weekend and, of course, remote. I missed being in Vegas with tens of thousands of hackers, but there were still some fantastic talks and conversations over Discord. A quick “Top Five” highlights: If your password is eight characters or less, you essentially don’t have a password.

The Top Five Highlights of Defcon 27

I love Defcon. For years, since I was a young script kiddie in high school, I had attending Defcon, the crazy huge hacker convention held every year in Las Vegas, on my bucket list. Now, Defcon 27 was my third Defcon and I seem to enjoy the conference more every year.