In July 2020, hundreds of the world’s most recognisable figures had their Twitter accounts compromised to spread a cryptocurrency scam. This article describes the events that led to the compromise, the techniques used by the threat actor, an evaluation of their sophistication and objectives, why it could have been worse, and finally lessons learned.
The CISSP exam was always put on a pedestal as being one of the hardest exams any cyber security manager could complete. However, in 2019 I passed the exam with less than 1 year of experience, and prepared this guide to show others how they can do the same.