I recently received a flurry of emails from clueless recruiters hiring for a senior medical device information security role. It reminded me of project I worked on with Bruce Schneier. But client totally misunderstood everything @schneierblog told them.

1995: Mudge published "How to Write Buffer Overflows", one of the first papers about buffer overflow exploitation. Afterwards, Mudge sent a copy to Aleph One, who later wrote "Smashing the Stack For Fun and Profit" in 1996. Seminal security paper to seminal security paper.

1995: The movie "Hackers" was released. It grossed $7 million at the box office against a budget of $20 million. Ouch. A box office failure, but today it's a cult classic. Crash Override. Rollerblades. Acid Burn. Floppies. Hack the Gibson!

1992: The movie "Sneakers" was released. With a budget of $35 million, it grossed $105 million at the box office. A hacker classic! Bishop, Whistler, Cosmo, and Mother!

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“Marketing can be aggressive which often leads some to jump on the latest buzz words...” said @WayneSchepens, founder and managing director of @goLaunchTech. Learn more about the #SEC's crackdown on "#AI washing" and its impact from @SCMagazine

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A Rhysida #ransomware decryption tool was publicly released, but one researcher, @emsisoft's Fabian Wosar, warned that publication of the decryption method will give the group the opportunity to fix the ransomware. #cybersecurity #infosec #ITsecurity https://t.co/FdKGpwLfrQ

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The big lie of millions of information security jobs

Chances are it’s a #scam #robocall when your phone rings. I share 18 tips on how to avoid getting scammed when your phone rings. Until @FCC Commissioner @BrendanCarrFCC & Chairwoman @JRosenworcel do more, scammers will continue to reap billions. https://t.co/my6cocZP2z #robocalls

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Twas a blast, @mattjay.

1990: Clifford Stoll's book "The Cuckoo's Egg" was turned into an episode of NOVA entitled "The KGB, the Computer, and Me". Without spoiling it, it's a story of how he tracked down a hacker who broke into his employer's computer. Watch it for free: https://t.co/FZSRWwX6Lt

1986: "The Hacker Manifesto" was published by The Mentor (Loyd Blankenship) in issue 7 of the hacker zine Phrack. It was originally titled "The Conscience of a Hacker". Read it. Reread it. Contemplate it. Share it. https://t.co/n20c1HW3X6

2014: Stephane Chazelas contacted Bash maintainer Chet Ramey about a vulnerability he dubbed "Bashdoor", which later becoming known as Shellshock. It was publicly disclosed 12 days later. Shellshock was kind of a big deal. https://t.co/1SjpukVIaT

2002: The Slapper worm was discovered in Eastern Europe. It spread on Linux systems by exploiting an OpenSSL vulnerability. Within days Slapper had compromised at least 30,000 Linux Apache Web servers. https://t.co/sgtPNxjUTW

1995: The movie "Hackers" was released. It grossed $7 million at the box office against a budget of $20 million. Ouch. A box office failure, but today it's a cult classic. Crash Override. Rollerblades. Acid Burn. Floppies. Hack the Gibson!

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