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The time to start a campaign against Russia on behalf of Ukraine was weeks ago. It’s too late now, like calling up the national guard hours before a massive shock and awe blitzkrieg campaign. Zelensky should have been making these appeals a long time ago but was delusional.
Lots of great things being shared here. We never know if OP is actually Russian and aiming to do the opposite of claimed -- nevertheless let's share what we'd normally share anyways. Adding on to what others have said I would say start with this. To be a useful "hacker" to *defend* your country start with ensuring you are not immediately exploitable yourself & then repeat for others close to you. A incomplete shortli…
The time to start a campaign against Russia on behalf of Ukraine was weeks ago. It’s too late now, like calling up the national guard hours before a massive shock and awe blitzkrieg campaign. Zelensky should have been making these appeals a long time ago but was delusional.
NATO has decided it was fine with letting Russia have Ukraine with the expectation that Russia would not invade other countries. I swear I've heard this before in a history class.
- Know when you might be introducing software vulnerabilities
- Find and repair bugs that might turn into vulnerabilities (things like static analysis and fuzzing, but also identifying code smells and where to inspect)
- Identify and avoid phishing attempts
- Identify (and, ideally, mitigate) places where resource exhaustion attacks are likely to be most effective
- Identify (and, ideally, mitigate) places where a process is dependent on external infrastructure that is controlled by another party
- Teach others how to do these things
These things are of high value in the day to day life of a software developer anyway, and there are lots of reputable resources available to learn and practice. In the future, if it turns out that you need offensive skills, that will work out OK too -- there's quite a bit of overlap, though not 100% overlap.
If you don't understand a piece of software (and I mean really understand it) you probably can't break it in a meaningful way. You may accidentally break it, but your lack of understanding how it actually works will prevent you from further exploiting it.
Just my 2 cents. Hope it helps.
You should connect with your country's leadership to put the pressure where it belongs here. You are a citizen showing interest in supporting your nation. So they need to be able to offer you training starting from the basic frameworks, usually the "why" and "what" and later down to the "how" and "when". As part of that training, they should be showing you which skills they want, how they can be acquired, and so on.…
The quickest way to block cyberattacks with measurable security benefit is probably through network controls. ACLs, segmentation, firewalls, IDS/IPS, etc. You can deploy these and block a lot of attacks right off the bat. Looking into AD security, GPO, anything that can deploy configuration to your entire environment is common to exploit and important to lock down. Those are the kinds of measures that have really measurable impact and help prevent the kind of catastrophe that state-sanctioned operations create.