The rookie years breaking into infosec are rough. I felt like an idiot most of the time. Didn't understand the acronym soup. I couldn't even figure out what to ask half the time. I was so lost. Here are 13 infosec career hacks I wish I had known when I was getting started:

Finally found a vehicle big enough for the whole family.

Did you know that if you hold CTRL it will pause Task Manager updating, which means the process names don't move around and are easier to select when you're sorted by resource usage? 👀 Works in both Windows 10 & 11

Just because you are a back-end developer, it doesn't mean you cannot come up with a beautiful UI design.

“ValiDrive” New GRC Windows utility to quickly spot-check any USB mass storage drive for deliberate sizing fraud and errors: grc.com/validrive.htm Over the next day I'll be fleshing out its description page. But the Windows App is ready for the world now! 👍

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I thought word of all the neat Windows shortcuts had already gone around already, but in order to save some people some time: Win+V: Cyclical copy/paste buffer Win+Shift+S: Snipping tool for quick partial screenshots Win+Period: Emoji selector

In ServiceNow any ticket that gets assigned to our group gets auto-closed if the caller is from New Jersey, because there’s just no helping them.

And people complain about the High-5 here in Dallas.

Why are we training babies to swim through underwater wreckage? 🙂

I’m gonna give 10 random people that repost this and follow me $25,000 for fun (the $250,000 my X video made) I’ll pick the winners in 72 hours

Fact check: I drew this before becoming a parent and this conversation never did happen for me. My daughter (3 years) doesn’t even use the word internet. Internet is just an expectation. Truly an incredible shift in my lifetime

HT Randall Munroe

I know it’s been said again and again, but what does it say about ChatControl that its backers keep explicitly *exempting* law enforcement and national security accounts from content scanning?