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His approachable style and his desire to teach others what he’s learned about informationsecurity has resulted in a massive following of half a million subscribers. Vamosi: There's also a need with social media for a clear firewall. By anyone’s measure that would make him an infosec influencer, would it not?
I suppose such things happen, but what I remember was her telling her surprise when the system booted up and the Windows 95 splash screen came up … wait, what? Microsoft, for example, stopped patching Windows XP for security vulnerabilities in 2014. Then nothing. The machine crashed, and the lab tech had to reboot.
I suppose such things happen, but what I remember was her telling her surprise when the system booted up and the Windows 95 splash screen came up … wait, what? Microsoft, for example, stopped patching Windows XP for security vulnerabilities in 2014. Then nothing. The machine crashed, and the lab tech had to reboot.
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