Staying informed
19 Sep 2018 · 2 min read
What should I read ? Who should I follow ?
- NetSec subreddit
- MISC magazine
- Hacker News YCombinator (IT news)
- Daniel MIESSLER
- TheHackerNews
- Krebs On Security
- OSS-Security
- Troy Hunt
- Security Affairs
- Kitploit (pentest tools)
- CERT ANSSI (CVE)
quick trick with gmail: if you have a gmail adress, you can use aliases to sort your mails.
For example if you gmail is test@gmail.com, you can then use test+cert@gmail.com.
The + sign is made to create aliases. It’s also a good way to know if your mail has leaked somewhere.
How to keep track of all those rss feeds ?
- RSS aggregators
- feedly : https://feedly.com/Feedly
- online-based, account needed, not open-source, addons and applications on all platforms
- Tiny-Tiny RSS: https://tt-rss.org/
- self-hosted, open-source
- FreshRSS: https://freshrss.org/
- self-hosted, open-source
- feedly : https://feedly.com/Feedly
What if I want to save an article/link for later ?
- To read later
- Pocket : https://getpocket.com/
- integrated in firefox, addon available for chrome, proprietary software, free-tier
- instapaper : https://www.instapaper.com/
- proprietary, free
- Wallabag : https://wallabag.org/fr
- self-hosted, open-source, free
- Raindrop : https://raindrop.io/
- Pocket : https://getpocket.com/
How to effectively keep yourself informed ?
- dedicate daily (or at least weekly) a moment to sort and read the different articles
- if you can, create a small group, each people deals with one or multiple topics, and create your own sort of newsletter
If you have any suggestions, feel free to drop a comment below :)