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Continue reading →: Security Things to Consider When Your Apartment Goes ‘Smart’A couple weeks ago, I vented my frustration as an ICS security professional at my apartment building forcibly converting to networked smart locks. My tweets were widely misinterpreted, so I’d like to talk a little bit about privacy and security aspects to consider if (when) the property you rent from…
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Continue reading →: I reviewed 600+ call-for-paper submissions, (and you’ll probably guess what happened next.)
Ever wondered if your conference talk proposal measures up? I definitely do, every time I submit to a conference. Over the past week I reviewed over 600 call for paper submissions for the Derbycon information security conference. This was definitely a unique experience – I had participated in review boards…
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Continue reading →: Infosec Resume No-Nos [VLOG]
A brief vlog on stylistic and content problems I see on resumes at clinics and from candidates.
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Continue reading →: Lesley on Brakeing Down Incident Response Podcast – All About Playbooks
Be sure and check out (and subscribe to) all of the episodes of the excellent Brakeing Down Security podcasts! Thank you for having me as a guest, Brian and Michael! Topic of the Day: The Incident Response Process, – Program, Plan, Policy, Process, Playbooks, and roles.
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Continue reading →: The Biggest “Small” Personal Digital Security MistakesI recently read a friend’s post about her family’s catastrophic woes dealing with a hacked Apple ID account. Her story was so troubling that it inspired me to remind folks of some of a few small security things that slip through the cracks in our daily lives that can cause…
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Continue reading →: The InfoSec Amnesty Q&AForeword (Lesley) One of the hardest things to accept in information security is that we as individuals will simply never know everything there is to know about the field, or all of its many niches. Despite this absolute reality, we still often feel embarrassed to ask basic questions about topics…
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Continue reading →: The Infosec Introvert Travel Blog(Updated 2/3/2020) So, you’ve finally landed that infosec job of your dreams! The clouds have parted and angels have descended from the sky singing Aphex Twin. Congratulations, I believed in you all along. One small problem: they say you’re going to have to travel. Maybe to a customer site. Maybe…
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Continue reading →: The Infosec of Ready Player One – A ReviewA Ready Player One major motion picture directed by Steven Spielberg is scheduled for release in March 2018, resulting in a recent resurgence of popularity of the Ernest Cline cyberpunk novel which serves as its inspiration. So, this seems like as good a time as any for me to briefly…
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Continue reading →: Whose Fault Is It? (A brief discussion on misconceptions about Equifax)
Our personal financial identities are exposed, and we’re mad. A sick, visceral, exhausted anger that hits us in the pit of our stomachs and makes us feel powerless. People are understandably furious about the Equifax breach- to a degree that makes it tough to have a rational discussion about what…
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Continue reading →: Credit Card Security InfographicI commissioned the very talented artist Bryan Ward to make a good quality version of my previous credit card security infographic. This is meant as a tool to educate and inform people who post photos of their credit cards on the internet, and you may link to or repost it…
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I’m Lesley, aka Hacks4Pancakes
Nice to meet you. I’m a long-time digital forensics and incident response professional, specializing in industrial control and critical infrastructure environments. I teach, lecture, speak, and write about cybersecurity.
I’m from Chicago, living in Melbourne.
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