10 must have tips for infosec people

10 tips for security people, http://www.flickr.com/photos/jeffchristiansen/ photo author

  1. We believe for anonymity in security through ambiguity and obscurity. Confuse them and they will come.
  2. Yo XSS, what will we do today? The same thing we do everyday, try to “hack the planet”!
  3. Hacking has no roots in kung-fu. Regardless of what anyone tells you, hackers are not master ninjas.
  4. DO NOT use the title penetration tester loosely
  5. Sarcasm in infosec is career limiting
  6. Satire is the most advanced form of communication having been founded by Egyptian monkeys
  7. Join the house of flying hackers social network and look up Debbie. Refer to point 3.
  8. Beware of the Council of Internet Supervillans
  9. Web application security is the only security! 999% of all reported vulnerabilities affect web applications (i.e. SQL Injection in the widely used Webgoat v1.000001 BETA)
  10. How to mitigate additional attacks: (1) Find hacker, (2) Baseball bat.
  11. Know how to use the term “pwned”. For example, I got pwned in the back “orfaces”.

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bwaahah, my career was built on number 5 sunshine :)

it’s the only way you can handle being around the people in infosec

heh, glad you enjoyed it ;)

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