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Got a bunch of house projects coming up myself… What kinda renos you up to?
Never been in the QA world myself, but as someone who has spent a fair bit of time in AppSec, I’ve encountered Selenium the most. 🤷♂️
When you say “transferrable in QA” do you mean, languages useful for QA folks that transfer out? I’d argue any/all of them would be for appsec folks.
Not a bug bounty hunter myself, but it seems like one of those things that you just have to jump into and start trying to do. So many bounties seem to be pretty low-hanging fruit type of stuff. The payouts might be either LOW or non-paid, just recognition type stuff, but seeing an accepted bounty submission come back does a lot for your confidence. It’s like CTFs in a way. Getting into CTFs seems intimidating at first, but then when you go actually do one and you have some level of success, it starts to feel a bit more approachable, you get more XP and you do better the next time.
You could also check this out https://www.bugbountyhunter.com/zseano/ and anything/everything from https://portswigger.net as that team is the best I know in terms of cutting-edge web app research.
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Titles in the security world are kinda a mess. Generally I just look for “-security engineer” titles. So in this case you would probably find “Cloud Security Engineer” or something. Look for security engineer roles that have anything cloud-related in the job req and you are probably on to something.
Hard to say, especially in this market. But, if you have some coding chops (from DevOps experience) or you have some knowledge of native cloud security tooling (from a Cloud role), then you would definitely have a leg up in getting a security engineer or netsec role (consider that a lot of modern “networks” are largely cloud networks).
I’d wager most people do. But you certainly hear about all the people who spend their free time doin more cyberz. I am definitely guilty of this a lot of the time. But I’ve been working harder to disconnect more. Being a parent helps with this as it’s pretty mandatory.
I wrote a bit about the pitfall(s) of “Certification Paths” - https://shellsharks.com/notes/2023/11/14/stop-worrying-about-certification-paths.
This is coming from someone who has A LOT of certs, and I’ve learned over this time that it’s just not the right way to think about progressing career-wise. You can read more though about certs and some thoughts on what you could take here too https://shellsharks.com/training-retrospective#what-certification-or-training-should-i-take.
Never heard of 'em. I’d say most of those things, while not necessarily “scams”, are probably not worth the time you would put into them. That said, if you have free time and they pay, then it is what it is. If you go down that path, make sure to report back!
Greed. Capitalism. AI speculation. Other stuff …
Big consulting firms (e.g. Accenture) and the like. Government jobs too if you’re close to where those are. Outside that, it’s very random which companies have such openings. The bigger the company the more likely it would have a higher diversity of roles and seniority openings.
Omg. I too have developed an “affinity” for coffee as of late. Have been thinking of cutting back. There’s always tomorrow right?
I’m a KubeNoob so gotta give you props regardless 😅
Y’all doin’ cool stuff. Rust, K8s, GH automation - 💪 @CodeGameEat@lemmy.world @MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world @thadah@lemmy.world
I always recommend Wild West Hack’n Fest. Cool location and the con is pretty good.
I’ve tried a bit. But not really day-to-day just yet