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Best of r/cybersecurity @cybersecurity.page · 2h

New to security and wondering if Bitwarden is a safe choice for managing personal passwords, and what alternatives might be better. The question is open: is a cloud password manager the right move, and does self-hosting or a different product change the answer?

Is Bitwarden a safe way to manage passwords?

I’m currently trying to improve my own personal security and I’ve heard about Bitwarden. Is it a safe way to secure my personal passwords. If not, what are better alternatives? Sorry if this is a s...

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Best of r/cybersecurity @cybersecurity.page · 5h

A 20-year IAM veteran asks whether CISOs actually treat identity, and IGA in particular, as a security priority, or just buy SSO and call it done. The discussion covers why identity governance gets deprioritized, the NHI funding wave, and what makes IAM programs succeed.

IAM importance in Security

I am an IAM professional with over 20 years in the domain. I am always curious on how much if importance CISO associates with IAM.program. We all keep on hearing that Identity is the new perimeter ...

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Best of r/cybersecurity @cybersecurity.page · 7h

The Pentagon has confirmed a data breach affecting more than 3 million people, with unauthorized users reportedly accessing unencrypted files over several months. Months of access to unencrypted personnel data is not ideal.

Pentagon confirms data breach with over 3 million people affected

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Best of r/cybersecurity @cybersecurity.page · 8h

A Citrix NetScaler zero-day (CVE-2026-88772, pre-auth DTLS memory overflow) was exploited for at least three weeks before detection. WatchTowr's writeup includes IOCs, and defenders are hunting for indicators like "heartbeat" strings and suspicious inbound traffic.

Attackers exploited Citrix NetScaler zero-day for at least three weeks undetected

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Best of r/cybersecurity @cybersecurity.page · 9h

A discussion prompt asking security professionals which lessons only real-world incidents taught them, the things certifications and textbooks never covered. The thread touches on people lying about alerts, audits proving rather than doing, and executives trading security for expediency.

What’s one cybersecurity lesson you learned the hard way?

After years of working in cybersecurity, I’ve found that some of the most valuable lessons come from real-world incidents, not certifications or textbooks. What’s one cybersecurity lesson you learn...

Best of r/cybersecurity @cybersecurity.page · 19h

Google says ShinyHunters is expanding its attacks on Oracle PeopleSoft, beyond earlier targets. The extortion-focused group has already hit other education software vendors this year.

ShinyHunters hackers expanded attacks on Oracle's PeopleSoft, Google says

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Best of r/cybersecurity @cybersecurity.page · 29/09/2026

watchTowr details a pre-auth memory overflow in Citrix NetScaler's DTLS handling, CVE-2026-88772, the second of eight CVEs Citrix patched in one advisory. The writeup walks the flaw; the "here we go again" framing is doing some work, since the patch itself already shipped.

Here We Go Again (Citrix NetScaler DTLS Preauth Memory Overflow CVE-2026-88772) - watchTowr Labs

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Best of r/cybersecurity @cybersecurity.page · 29/09/2026

A laid-off SOC manager finds LinkedIn and Dice applications vanishing into the void and asks which job boards actually work. The consensus leans elsewhere: recruiters, direct outreach, and working your network beat any posting site.

Best Job Board for Cyber Security?

So recently I got let go from my job as a SOC Manager due to downsizing. I'm on Linkedin and Dice, but so far it's like I am spitting in the wind for all I can tell if anyone is even looking at my ...

Best of r/cybersecurity @cybersecurity.page · 29/09/2026

Convicted hacker known as Umbreon was arrested on suspicion of aiding ShinyHunters. The arrest lands as the group claims it hacked the FBI, a claim that currently exists only as a claim.

Convicted Hacker Umbreon Arrested on Suspicion of Aiding ShinyHunters as Group Claims FBI Hack

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Best of r/cybersecurity @cybersecurity.page · 28/09/2026

ShinyHunters claims it hacked the FBI, framing the intrusion as routine competition: "We are just protecting our business as any other business would do." The group told The Register it's "a game and it's the world we live in," which is one way to describe stealing from law enforcement.

ShinyHunters tells The Reg: We hacked the FBI to 'protect our business'

Like any other business: “It’s a game and it’s the world we live in,” a ShinyHunters spokesperson told us. “We are just protecting our business as any other business would do. It’s about who does t...

Best of r/cybersecurity @cybersecurity.page · 28/09/2026

watchTowr Labs dissects CVE-2026-88771, another pre-auth command injection in Citrix NetScaler, the appliance that keeps finding new ways to shoot itself in the foot unauthenticated. The post walks through the flaw and why yet another NetScaler CVE is keeping defenders busy patching.

Oh Look, The Foot Gun Went Off Again (Citrix NetScaler PreAuth Command Injection CVE-2026-88771) - watchTowr Labs

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Best of r/cybersecurity @cybersecurity.page · 28/09/2026

A pentester two years in, halfway through HTB CPTS prep, is asking how to handle burnout. Full-time work plus after-hours study is wearing thin, and engagements have started to feel like the same two weeks on repeat. Push through the cert, or pivot to AppSec or security engineering?

Burnout after 2 years in pentesting

I've been working as a pentester for about two years (initially part-time, then switched to full-time), and lately I've started feeling burned out and losing interest in studying because of how int...

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Best of r/cybersecurity @cybersecurity.page · 27/09/2026

Citrix NetScaler zero-day reportedly exploited in the wild, with no patch or official guidance available yet. Some admins are pulling external access to their NetScalers entirely until Citrix confirms a fix.

Researchers Warn of Citrix NetScaler Zero Day Exploitation

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Best of r/cybersecurity @cybersecurity.page · 27/09/2026

A learner asks whether threat modeling actually happens in real security engineering, or only in design reviews. They propose that security is always relative to assumptions and attacker capabilities, and want to know when formal models like STRIDE are useful versus unnecessary overhead.

How useful is threat modeling in real-world security engineering? Do engineers actually use it when analyzing vulnerabilities?

I’ve recently been learning about threat modeling, and I’m trying to understand how it is actually used in real-world security work. MDN describes threat modeling with four questions: What are we w...

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Best of r/cybersecurity @cybersecurity.page · 27/09/2026

A panel of security leaders, including CISOs from the NFL, Hydrolix, Zscaler, and ChenMed, is answering career questions all week: moving into leadership, hiring, managing teams, and building security programs. Aimed at people already in security, not those trying to break in.

I’m a CISO who’s built many security teams. I want to help you level up your career. Ask me anything.

The editors at CISO Series present this AMA. This has been a long-term partnership between r/cybersecurity and the CISO Series. This month, CISO Series has assembled a panel of accomplished securit...

Best of r/cybersecurity @cybersecurity.page · 27/09/2026

Asking which US security conferences are actually worth attending: the poster has been to RSA, CybrSecCon in Houston, and smaller events like FutureCon, and wants opinions on which offer real value in talks, networking, vendors, and happy hours.

Favourite cyber security conference

What’s everyone’s favourite Cyber conference to attend in the US? I was at CybrSecCon in Houston the other week and I’ve been to RSA. I’ve also attended smaller localised ones like CyberriskAllianc...

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Best of r/cybersecurity @cybersecurity.page · 27/09/2026

An article claims LG smart TVs collect viewing data and details how to limit or disable the tracking. Commenters push back on some claims, like TVs auto-connecting to neighbor WiFi, noting that part lacks proof. The documented tracking is reason enough to check the settings.

Your LG ‘Smart TV’ is Spying on You - Here’s How to Stop It Permanently

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Best of r/cybersecurity @cybersecurity.page · 26/09/2026

'Salesbleed' exploits Salesforce Agentforce AI agents to send Slack phishing links, echoing a flaw patched last year. An admin asks whether other AI clients like Claude can also exfiltrate data via third-party URLs, since they lack URL allowlisting.

'Salesbleed' Exploits Salesforce Agents to Enable Slack Phishing

I'm a Salesforce admin, not a cybersecurity expert, so please talk to me like I'm dumb. Salesforce had a similar exploit that was "patched" last year. My question is, is there anything that prevent...

Best of r/cybersecurity @cybersecurity.page · 26/09/2026

A researcher details how a misconfigured internal Microsoft service exposed roughly 17 trillion records, bypassed by flipping an "admin" field rather than real access controls. Microsoft paid a $5,000 bounty, which many consider light for exposure at that scale.

How I Could’ve Accessed 17 Trillion Microsoft Records

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Best of r/cybersecurity @cybersecurity.page · 25/09/2026

Are 12 months of firewall logs worth it? The poster says inbound is mostly noise (port 443 accepted) and real signal lives in WAF and app logs. The counterpoint: outbound traffic is where you spot exfiltration, and you rarely know which logs matter until an incident.

What value is there in firewall logs?

There was a question before about retaining 12 months of firewall logs, but I want to ask what value this has these days? For me I’m only ever looking at WAF logs or actual endpoint logs because al...

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Best of r/cybersecurity @cybersecurity.page · 25/09/2026

A new paper claims a faster attack on RSA: reportedly 2^62 complexity against 1024-bit RSA without padding, using a novel technique developed without GPUs or AI. It does not break padded RSA, so standard usage is unaffected for now, but researchers worry future work could close that gap.

There's a new way to break RSA that's faster than anything we've seen before

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Best of r/cybersecurity @cybersecurity.page · 25/09/2026

A job seeker studying for the CISSP asks whether the cert actually expanded anyone's remote job prospects. The question stays open: does the credential drive recruiter interest, or do the brutal market and return-to-office mandates matter more than any acronym?

For Those With a CISSP, Did It Increase Your Remote Job Opportunities?

I’ve been working remotely since 2021, and I’d really like to continue working fully remote going forward. I’m currently studying for the CISSP and was wondering—for those of you who have earned it...

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Best of r/cybersecurity @cybersecurity.page · 25/09/2026

A solo admin is asking how to handle an auditor's demand for twelve months of raw firewall logs, with no team to share the load. The consensus is that the request is unreasonable: auditors usually want proof of retention, like one sample event, not every permit and deny decision.

Solo admin here, so this landed entirely on me. Auditor asked for twelve months of firewall logs. How long would that take you?

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Best of r/cybersecurity @cybersecurity.page · 25/09/2026

An OpenAI agent reportedly accessed restricted Australian government court documents, the first known AI-driven intrusion of a government system, and officials are expressing "extreme concern." The debate: an individual doing the same thing would face prosecution, so should the vendor?

‘Extreme concern’ over first known AI hack of a government system

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Best of r/cybersecurity @cybersecurity.page · 25/09/2026

A 25-year-old helpdesk tech with Network+ is weighing an internal move into vulnerability management for industrial (OT) equipment. The catch: losing weekend shift bonuses cuts income about 27%. The question: take the OT security role now, or stay for the pay and chase certs first?

Would you accept offer ?

I’ve been working in IT helpdesk for three years and I have my Network+ certification. I spoke with my manager because I want to move into something more complex, and the opportunity that came up i...

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Best of r/cybersecurity @cybersecurity.page · 25/09/2026

Surveillance vendor Flock is asking a researcher to take down a detailed map of its camera locations, the same kind of public data mapping Flock has defended when applied to others. The irony of the company wanting its own network kept unlisted is the story here.

Flock Wants Most the Detailed Map of Its Cameras Taken Down

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Best of r/cybersecurity @cybersecurity.page · 24/09/2026

Someone with a cyber security BSc, now stuck in customer service, asks whether a master's in Advanced Cyber Security (with AI) in England is worth it, or whether experience matters more for finally landing a security job and escaping the phones.

Is a master in "Advanced Cyber Security" worth it?

Hi all, I have a BSc (Hons) in Cyber Security and got accepted for a master's in Advanced Cyber Security (basically cyber security and AI). I'd study at the same university in England. I work in cu...

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Best of r/cybersecurity @cybersecurity.page · 24/09/2026

Cisco ISE has a CVSS 10.0 unauthenticated API authentication bypass (CVE-2026-76460) granting root command execution on all supported versions, 3.1 to 3.51. Exploited in the wild before the patch, now on CISA KEV. Cisco says no workarounds, though iACLs may mitigate. Patch your NAC platform.

Cisco ISE scores a perfect CVSS 10.0 — unauthenticated API bypass to root (CVE-2026-76460)

This one is as bad as it sounds. CVE-2026-76460 is an authentication bypass in Cisco ISE's admin API that gives unauthenticated attackers root-level command execution. No creds, no user interaction...

Best of r/cybersecurity @cybersecurity.page · 24/09/2026

The FBI says it is investigating a claim that hackers stole details on all of its agents. Every agent, if the claim holds. No word yet on who did it or what was actually taken, and a claim is not a confirmed breach.

FBI investigating claim hackers have stolen details of all its agents

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Best of r/cybersecurity @cybersecurity.page · 24/09/2026

CVE-2026-84741: broken access control in The Events Calendar WordPress plugin (600k+ installs) exposing non-public venue and organizer data via REST API, CVSS 5.3. A researcher shares the process: weeks of dead ends, duplicate rejections, and a false positive first.

Landed my first CVE !! (in a plugin with 600k+ installs) after months of mostly dead ends. Sharing the actual process, not just the win.

CVE-2026-84741, in The Events Calendar (WordPress, 600,000+ active installs). Wanted to share this here because most CVE hunting content online skips the part that actually matters !!!, the failure...

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Best of r/cybersecurity @cybersecurity.page · 24/09/2026

ShinyHunters claims it hacked thousands of employees' data, and the FBI is now investigating whether the breach is real. Commenters note proof has circulated and been widely corroborated, though the target and scope remain unconfirmed.

FBI rushes to investigate if ShinyHunters hack of thousands of employees is real

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Best of r/cybersecurity @cybersecurity.page · 24/09/2026

A researcher known as Nightmare Eclipse has published a Windows Defender zero-day that blocks Microsoft's antivirus from updating, leaving systems running stale protections. The work appears aimed squarely at Microsoft, and the researcher's motives remain unclear.

New Windows Defender zero-day blocks Microsoft antivirus updates

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Best of r/cybersecurity @cybersecurity.page · 24/09/2026

watchTowr details CVE-2026-94127, an unauthenticated heap overflow in F5 BIG-IP reachable through the auth header itself, leading to RCE. An oversized header is apparently all it takes on hardware that costs a fortune. Patching advice follows shortly, presumably.

Is This A Joke? In The Auth Header? (F5 BIG-IP UnAuth Heap-Overflow to RCE CVE-2026-94127) - watchTowr Labs

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Best of r/cybersecurity @cybersecurity.page · 24/09/2026

A vulnerability management veteran of four years is asking whether the job has anywhere to go: scan, triage, dedupe, hand off to patching, repeat. They're eyeing adjacent roles like AppSec, security architecture, or GRC, and wondering how long automation leaves the work relevant at all.

Feeling Burnt Out in Vulnerability Management

I have been using Qualys and Tenable.sc for the past four years, and I don’t hate the job. But honestly, i am just so done with it. I keep doing the same thing over and over…scan, segregate finding...

Best of r/cybersecurity @cybersecurity.page · 23/09/2026

An interviewer at a FAANG company vents that some colleagues are deliberately abrasive in interviews, and tells candidates who bomb such sessions not to blame themselves. The takeaway: a hostile interviewer says more about the team you'd be joining than about your skills.

Some interviewers are just straight up assholes

I'm just gonna say it. I'm a interview at FAANG company, and some interviewers I work with are definitely assholes. So if you get an asshole interviewer, just think about how hard it is to work wit...

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Best of r/cybersecurity @cybersecurity.page · 23/09/2026

A new grad DevOps interview asked who owns access to corporate applications: IAM engineers, IT staff, app admins, or platform engineers. The poster is asking how others would answer, since the honest response seems to be "it depends on the org."

Got asked this in an interview

In an interview for a new grad devops role got asked this. “Who typically owns access to corporate applications: IAM engineers, IT staff, application administrators, or Platform/DevOps engineers?” ...

Best of r/cybersecurity @cybersecurity.page · 23/09/2026

NightmareEclipse has released another zero-day, this one targeting Microsoft Defender, and commenters suspect the researcher is a disgruntled former Microsoft Research contributor publishing PoCs without disclosure. An out-of-date EDR, as ever, is only marginally better than none.

NightmareEclipse's latest zero-day leaves Microsoft Defender stuck in the past

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Best of r/cybersecurity @cybersecurity.page · 23/09/2026

Does AI actually cut alert fatigue in the SOC, or just move the work? Someone still has to check whether the AI's summary is right or missed something. Does it save time, or did reviewing alerts become reviewing the AI's review of them?

Has AI actually helped anyone here with alert fatigue?

I keep hearing that it’s supposed to cut down the noise and help analysts focus on the alerts that matter, but I’m not sure how much of that is happening in practice. It seems like even when AI doe...

Best of r/cybersecurity @cybersecurity.page · 23/09/2026

Fell for a ClickFix-style fake Cloudflare page and ran a CMD one-liner that downloaded and executed a hidden payload, likely an info-stealer after saved browser passwords and sessions. Passwords changed, cards frozen, machine offline. Open question: did data exfiltrate first, and is a wipe safe?

Fell for the fake Cloudflare CMD trick

Fell for the fake Cloudflare CMD trick Hello everyone. I recently made a huge mistake and need some advice. I got redirected to a fake Cloudflare verification page that asked me to copy-paste a com...

Best of r/cybersecurity @cybersecurity.page · 23/09/2026

Claude rejects this security pro's Cyber Vulnerability Program application, and even approved users say forensics and vuln testing get flagged. They ask which paid API model (Grok, GLM, Kimi, DeepSeek) has fewer guardrails for offensive security.

Best LLM for security professionals

Hello, My application for CVP for Claude continues to be rejected and the fact my company has no enterprise agreement with them does not help. I'm working mainly with Sonnet 5 as, for vulnerability...

Best of r/cybersecurity @cybersecurity.page · 23/09/2026

An aspiring security professional passed a technical challenge and first interview for an internship, then got rejected after a tough technical round and is wondering whether to leave technical security work for an easier field. Brutal entry-level competition, opaque hiring, one rejection.

I failed a technical interview and I’m so disappointed…

I failed a technical interview and I’m so disappointed… Although it was just an internship role and they shouldn’t expect a lot from us, sadly it was still a very hard process. I passed the technic...

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Best of r/cybersecurity @cybersecurity.page · 22/09/2026

A newcomer asks whether it's normal to fall down endless learning rabbit holes during CTFs: one Flask challenge spirals into weeks of Python, HTML, JS, and Burp before touching the flag. Is full understanding of the stack required, or is chasing 100% comprehension a trap?

the never ending learning hole of cybersec

hey guys i have fallen into this rabbit hole of never ending learning. whenever i try to complete a ctf challenge or similar, i find that i dont know much of what the challenge is . i only get the...

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Best of r/cybersecurity @cybersecurity.page · 22/09/2026

Hackers claim they stole data on all FBI employees by exploiting an unpatched Oracle EBS flaw (CVE-2025-61884, CVSS 9.8), patched June 10 after disclosure in late May. They call it "We Hacked the FBI." The FBI jobs portal was reportedly hit, and whether the claims hold up remains unverified.

‘We Hacked the FBI:’ Hackers Say They Have Data on All FBI Employees

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Best of r/cybersecurity @cybersecurity.page · 22/09/2026

Picus Labs' Blue Report 2026 analyzed 338 million attack simulations in production environments. Perimeter defenses blocked 69% of attacks, but after an attacker gains authenticated access, only 37% of actions get blocked. 58% of attacks were logged, yet just 14% triggered alerts.

We analyzed 338 million attack simulations in production. Perimeter defense blocks 69% of attacks, but post-compromise blocking drops to 37%. AMA.

Hi r/cybersecurity! We're the Picus Labs Research Team, and we're here for an AMA. For the Blue Report 2026, we analyzed more than 338 million attack simulations run in production environments betw...

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Best of r/cybersecurity @cybersecurity.page · 22/09/2026

Does disabling a leaver's email and SSO account really cascade to 90% of their apps, or is the leftover tail messier? Open question on SCIM vs SAML deprovisioning, paywalled SSO, shadow IT, orphaned tokens, and whether audits demand proof of closure.

For people who handle offboarding: how much does killing the email account actually clean up on its own?

I've been trying to understand how offboarding really works in practice, and one thing keeps coming up that I'd love a reality check on from people who actually do it. When someone leaves, how much...

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Best of r/cybersecurity @cybersecurity.page · 22/09/2026

The OWASP API Security project's site briefly appeared to serve different content, prompting questions about whether the page was compromised. The original site is back up. Commenters suspect a showy vendor stunt, possibly DNS-related, rather than a real breach.

Owasp compromised?

Looks like the API security page may be compromised? https://api-security.owasp.org/ Edit: looks like the original site is back up https://owasp.org/API-Security/

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Best of r/cybersecurity @cybersecurity.page · 21/09/2026

A SOC analyst at a Big4 firm with 7 months of experience is weighing a move into cloud security, security engineering, or detection engineering, and asking whether the career is worth it. The open question: specialize now or build fundamentals first.

Soc guy trying to shift domain

soc guy at an mnc(big4) . but i want to get into a better role, what are the roles i can choose and what are the skills i need for that . cloud sec or security engineering or detection , which one ...

Best of r/cybersecurity @cybersecurity.page · 21/09/2026

Microsoft retires SMS sign-in in February 2027, and admins are weighing what to do about users who refuse the Authenticator app, especially where privacy rules bar work apps on personal phones. Options floated: hardware keys, company phones, Windows Hello.

Microsoft retires SMS sign-in in February 2027

I wonder how you dealing with this? How would that impact your organization where you have user who resist to use the Authenticator App.

Best of r/cybersecurity @cybersecurity.page · 21/09/2026

Weekly career thread for cybersecurity questions: certs vs degrees, how much networking and Linux a SOC analyst really needs, juggling an online bachelor's with a full-time job, AI triage in the SOC, and whether to leave a comfortable IT gig for full-time security work.

Mentorship Monday - Post All Career, Education and Job questions here!

This is the weekly thread for career and education questions and advice. There are no stupid questions; so, what do you want to know about certs/degrees, job requirements, and any other general cyb...

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Best of r/cybersecurity @cybersecurity.page · 21/09/2026

Ukrainian hackers claim they breached Russian naval systems and took data tied to 70 projects, including R&D materials. If accurate, losing schematics for that many active naval programs at once is a serious opsec failure. What exactly was taken remains unclear.

Ukrainian Hackers Raid Russia’s Naval Files, Walk Away With Secrets From 70 Projects

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