Best Infosec Long-Reads of the Week, 7/16/22
Best Infosec Long-Reads of the Week, 7/16/22
An attorney found her face for sale on NFT marketplace OpenSea, How a teen from an upscale suburban community pulled off a $23.8 million crypto heist, DARPA wants to understand open source risks, more
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Jillian York, an attorney at EFF, wrote this can’t-miss tale in The Record about this misuse of her face in a non-fungible token (NFT) that was for sale in a collection of images entitled Cipherpunks for sale on NFT marketplace OpenSea back in December when NFTs were hot commodities. Included in the collection were some troubling tech figures accused of sexual misconduct and assault.
Rolling Stone writer Alex Morris has this fantastic interview with Ellis Pinsky, a bright suburban teenager in leafy Irvington, New York, who was drawn into the underworld of malicious internet hackers and pulled off a $23.8 million heist b…
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