Security Leftovers
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The road to the apprenticeship | Trail of Bits Blog
Finding talent is hard, especially in the blockchain security industry. The space is new, so you won’t find engineers with decades of experience with smart contracts. Training is difficult, as the technology evolves constantly, and online content quickly becomes outdated. There are also a lot of misconceptions about blockchain technology that make security engineers hesitant to enter the space. As a result, the pool of people who are able to both master blockchain technology and grasp the mindset of a security engineer is fairly small.
We have now been working on blockchain projects for more than half a decade, and we have always struggled to find qualified applicants. Last year, to alleviate this problem, we created an intensive apprenticeship program to give apprentices the equivalent of two years’ experience in only three months. The program has been a huge success, and we have offered full-time positions to all of our apprentices!
Read on for more information about the program and the apprentices we’ve hired so far, as well as pointers for future applicants.
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What’s That Scope Trace Saying? UPD And Wireshark
[Matt Keeter], like many of us, has a lot of network-connected devices and an oscilloscope. He decided he wanted to look into what was on the network. While most of us might reach for Wireshark, he started at the PCB level. In particular, he had — or, rather, had someone — solder an active differential probe soldered into an Ethernet switch. The scope attached is a Textronix, but it didn’t have the analyzer to read network data. However, he was able to capture 190+ MB of data and wrote a simple parser to analyze the network data pulled from the switch.
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Millions of US accounts affected: Telecom group conceals information about hacked personal data
Almost half of all T-Mobile customers in the USA were victims of a huge data breach. Deutsche Telekom, as the parent company, has been violating its self-imposed obligations to data protection ever since.