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Favorite Security Resources

Here’s an ever-changing list of some of my most frequented websites, blogs, twitter accounts, YouTube channels and Podcasts for Security information and news. If you have any recommendations, please let me know!

I use Feedly as my RSS reader.

Websites & Blogs:
Dark Reading: https://www.darkreading.com/
Bleeping Computer: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/
ThreatPost: https://threatpost.com/
Troy Hunt’s Blog: https://www.troyhunt.com/
The Hacker News: https://thehackernews.com/
Security Week: https://www.securityweek.com/
Schneier on Security Blog: https://www.schneier.com/
Naked Security: https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/
Malwarebytes Blog: https://blog.malwarebytes.com/
Krebs on Security Blog: https://krebsonsecurity.com/
We Live Security – Eset Blog: https://www.welivesecurity.com/
Security Boulevard: https://securityboulevard.com/

Good subreddit’s:
https://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/
https://www.reddit.com/r/cybersecurity/
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskNetsec/

Twitter Accounts:
https://twitter.com/NahamSec
https://twitter.com/gynvael
https://twitter.com/TinkerSec
https://twitter.com/bad_packets
https://twitter.com/LiveOverflow
https://twitter.com/campuscodi
https://twitter.com/binitamshah
https://twitter.com/tiraniddo
https://twitter.com/thegrugq
https://twitter.com/RobertMLee
https://twitter.com/briankrebs
https://twitter.com/jaysonstreet
https://twitter.com/hacks4pancakes
https://twitter.com/troyhunt
https://twitter.com/evacide
https://twitter.com/k8em0
https://twitter.com/MalwareTechBlog
https://twitter.com/HackingDave
and of course, Taylor Swift https://twitter.com/SwiftOnSecurity

YouTuber’s:
https://www.youtube.com/LiveOverflowCTF
https://www.youtube.com/RootOfTheNull
https://www.youtube.com/NetworkChuck
https://www.youtube.com/hackersploit

Podcasts:
Darknet Diaries
CISO Security Vendor Relationship Podcast
Cyber
Heavy Networking (networking)
IT Career Energizer (more general)
Threat Wire





Podcast Favorites

TECH
https://a16z.com/podcasts/
https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all
https://pcper.com/category/podcast-article/
https://lexfridman.com/ai/
https://www.cigionline.org/big-tech
https://podcasts.voxmedia.com/show/pivot

IT
https://itcareerenergizer.com/
https://packetpushers.net/series/weekly-show/

Security
https://www.vice.com/en_us/topic/cyber
https://www.hak5.org/category/episodes/threatwire
https://darknetdiaries.com/

News/Economica/Business/Current Events
https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510289/planet-money
https://www.npr.org/podcasts/381444600/marketplace
https://www.nytimes.com/column/the-daily
http://freakonomics.com/archive/
https://gimletmedia.com/shows/startup

Science
https://www.startalkradio.net/
https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/

Thinkers, etc
https://tim.blog/podcast/
http://podcasts.joerogan.net/
https://www.thatcreative.life/
https://www.akimbo.link/
https://samharris.org/podcast/
https://fs.blog/the-knowledge-project/
https://www.thisamericanlife.org/
https://www.theringer.com/the-bill-simmons-podcast

52 Books Read in 2019

FICTION

Contemporary Fiction
The Friend Sigrid Nunez
An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh
There There by Tommy Orange
Supermarket by Logic
Normal People by Sally Rooney
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong

Literary Fiction
The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
American Psycho Brett Easton Ellis

Science Fiction
Dark Matter Blake Crouch
Exhalation Ted Chiang
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams
Recursion Blake Crouch
The Institute Stephen King

Fantasy
Witcher Series #1 The Last Wish
Witcher Series #3 Baptism of Fire
Witcher Series #4 Blood of Elves
Witcher Series #5 The Time of Contempt
(I read these out of order since #1 & #2 are short stories)

Manga
Uzumaki 1-3

Graphic Novel
Batman: The Killing Joke by Alan Moore

Romance
Fix Her Up by Tessa Bailey
The Northern Lights Lodge by Julie Caplin

NONFICTION

General Nonfiction
The Library Book by Susan Orlean
Make your Bed by William H McRaven
The Four Horsemen
Eat the Frog by Brian Tracey
Stillness is the Key by Ryan Holiday
Embrace your Weird by Felicia Day
The Highly Sensitive Person by Elaine Aron
Talking to Strangers Malcom Gladwell

Technology
Gray Day
Bitcoin Billionaires by Ben Mezrich
Countdown to Zero by Kim Zetter
Breaking and Entering
Ghost in the Wires by Kevin Mitnick
Dawn of the Code War by John Carlin
Don’t Be Evil by Rana Foorhaar

Biography
It’s Not Yet Dark by Simon Fitzmaurice
My Own Devices by Dessa
Flat Broke with Two Goats by Jennifer Mcgaha
Can’t Hurt Me by David Goggins
Surely You’re Joking Mr Feynman by Richard Feynman
Dear Girls by Ali Wong
Permanent Record by Edward Snowden

Science
Lab Girl Hope Jahren
From Here to Eternity by Caitlin Doughty
Hacking Darwin
Will My Cat Eat my Eyeballs by Caitlin Doughty
Soul of the Octopus by Sy Montgomery


12/4/19

On Stream:

This video was suggested and it’s fabulous! Noam Chomsky is a gift.

Acrylic CPU Block List

The below list includes 20 acrylic CPU Blocks for PC watercooling that are ranked top to bottom in terms of aesthetics. This list is based on aesthetics ONLY and not performance and purely my own personal opinion. The individual blocks have not been tested or reviewed other than gazing at them longing online. 🙂

Click on the link to find out more about the block!

Disclosure:
Some of the links are Amazon affiliate links.
The only brand listed below that has sent me products to test before is Alphacool, and not the block on this list.

1OptimusFoundationLink to the Block
2PhanteksPH-C350I_CR01Link to the Block
3AlphacoolEisblock AuroraLink to the Block
4EKVelocityLink to the Block
5Aqaucomputercuplex kryos NEXTLink to the Block
6PhanteksPH-C360I_CR01Link to the Block
7CorsairXC9 (HydroX)Link to the Block
8Bykskiunknown nameLink to the Block
9WatercoolHEATKILLER IV PROLink to the Block
10SwiftekApogee XL2Link to the Block
11BitspowerSummit MLink to the Block
12XSPCRaystormLink to the Block
13AshataRicher-RLink to the Block
14Freezemodunknown nameLink to the Block
15Barrowunknown nameLink to the Block
16BykskiWheels HubLink to the Block
17BarrowLTYKB-ARKLink to the Block
18PhobyaUC-2Link to the Block
19ThermalTakePacific W3Link to the Block
20AveksUnknown nameLink to the Block

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