The ethical dilemmas at the heart of Cybersecurity Marcus’s story Marcus stared at the terminal, his hands hovering over the keyboard like a pianist about to perform. He’d found it by accident, a SQL injection vulnerability in his university’s student portal. One misplaced quote mark in a search field, one poorly sanitized input, and suddenly…
Category: CyberSecurity – My Journey
What no one tells you before you choose Cybersecurity as a career
I still remember the moment I decided to pursue cybersecurity. I’d been reading headlines about massive data breaches, watching movies where hackers saved the world in 90 minutes, a close friend getting hacked and the attacker making away with some significant monies and I had had the final straw thinking: This is it. This is…
Your Smart Home Isn’t That Smart: The Hidden Risks of IoT Devices
The Baby Monitor That Wasn’t Watching Alone Jessica heard her daughter crying through the baby monitor app on her phone. She was about to get up when she heard a voice, not her daughter’s, not her husband’s. “Go back to sleep, little one,” a man’s voice crooned through the speaker. Her blood turned cold. She…



