Career Choice Tip: Cybercrime Is Mostly Boring
krebsonsecurity.com
Career Choice Tip: Cybercrime Is Mostly Boring
1–10 of 106 posts
Re: Career Choice Tip: Cybercrime Is Mostly Boring
#2Nothing wrong with boring!
Re: Career Choice Tip: Cybercrime Is Mostly Boring
#3Isn’t the vast majority of “cyber crime” just normal white collar crime (eg fraud) done over the internet?
Do people really think it’s exciting?
Re: Career Choice Tip: Cybercrime Is Mostly Boring
#4It's not, if you on the other side.
Re: Career Choice Tip: Cybercrime Is Mostly Boring
#5All of the "cybercrime" stock photos now just look like regular white-hats working in a post-COVID environment :)
Re: Career Choice Tip: Cybercrime Is Mostly Boring
#6Isn’t the vast majority of “cyber crime” just normal white collar crime (eg fraud) done over the internet? Do people really think it’s exciting?
You don't think crime is more exciting than a desk job?
Re: Career Choice Tip: Cybercrime Is Mostly Boring
#7I cannot find the original paper anywhere, if anyone finds it please post a link here. Thank you!
Re: Career Choice Tip: Cybercrime Is Mostly Boring
#8Just wondering, is cyber crime career and pentester the same thing?
Re: Career Choice Tip: Cybercrime Is Mostly Boring
#9Just wondering, is cyber crime career and pentester the same thing?
No. By cybercrime he means a literal career as a criminal. Pentesting is done with permission from the target.
Re: Career Choice Tip: Cybercrime Is Mostly Boring
#10Isn’t the vast majority of “cyber crime” just normal white collar crime (eg fraud) done over the internet? Do people really think it’s exciting?
"Internet of Things is devices communicating over the network. Your printer, your fridge...". So, like... the internet?
"Digital Marketing is the hot new thing. It allows people to buy and sell through the internet". Have you been asleep for last twenty years?
Jesting aside, I think these terms are added to differentiate from things occurring in other spaces or channels. Fraud exists, sure, but it is varied. Email fraud might share some patterns with mail fraud, but I suppose there are differences dictated by the vectors being different, even for cases like email/mail where one word signifies the other nowadays.