TempestTiger

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How do you secure your home network/pc? (programming.dev)
 

So I'm a baby dev, still in Uni and they don't allow internships in 4th year due to some issues with it so not even that exp wise.

I don't know enough, and I'm trying to learn but there's so much! My Uni degree doesn't cover security at all. Which is shit, bc I think I want to work in that? Mostly I'm just spooked and want to understand everything I can 'cause I love the internet and want to feel safer wandering about it.

I'm scared of clicking on links. Even ones here, like there was a post about a book list earlier and I was just there like "Cmoon.... someone please have posted the lissssst."

Would anyone be willing to share what they do for their own security? Especially if it's ridiculously over the top. Included reasonings and details would be adored!

Also, if anyone has any books or references that might be good for learning sec from a programmatic view rather than a IT view I'd really love that! Anything at all.

Regardless, hope anyone reading this has an absolutely wonderful day and best of luck with everything you're up to!

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Anyone know a good guide on how to read Malwarebytes logs or... something? (programming.dev)
 

Know this isn't technically Dev, sorry in advance.

I keep getting outbound malware alerts when I browse global. Today it's lemmy.today, last week it was another instance etc.

I'm interested in learning more about sec, and while I've looked at the JSON logs and tried googling "What does threat id -1 mean" etc., I can't seem to find anything.

I'm kind of just curious about what, specifically, the threat was and what it was trying to do - but the logs seem pretty blank. As mentioned above, the id is -1 and the name is blank.

Anyone know a good guide, or something, to read up or... better questions to ask?

Thank you for your time and hav a wonderful day. :)

Final year of Uni, need to get a job. in c/[email protected]
[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

ddnomad

No worries! I have the same alert wise. Prefer to check in my own time.

Sent you a friend request on Discord. :)

Final year of Uni, need to get a job. in c/[email protected]
[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Would you mind terribly if I messaged you for some advice/with some questions? It's ok if not, your posts have given me a bunch to think about/work on! But if you have the time and inclination I'd love to pick your brain. :)

EDIT: Oh and tyvm for your response! Loads of great points :D

DOUBLE EDIT: Incase you're not ok with me messaging!

Can't see your post while I respond so apologies if I miss anything.

  1. Resume: Sugar, I'll get on that. I only have a single one with my previous job exp and college/a couple courses on it. Need to do more mid to large scale projects for a portfolio (that's the job for the next couple weeks!)

  2. LinkedIn: I have one, haven't updated it in a long time and don't have many connects but should be able to get a whole bunch when the new semester starts in September. I'll ask some friends who I've done some work for to verify my skills - think I only have one in Java rn. Will update. ๐Ÿ‘Œ

  3. Open Source/VCS: Do you mean making projects myself and throwing them online, or joining other ones to help? I'm a bit anxious about doing the latter but have been trying to gear myself up to it. The former, I'm currently designing a couple small to mid tier projects for a portfolio that I was planning to put up on GitHub. Would that work? Outside of that, I've been trying to ensure I make as many commits as I can - though realistically I only have about 4 green boxes a week since May-ish and recently took a 2 week break to study for something else.

  4. Stack Overflow: Never joined Stack Overflow - but I'll consider doing so per your advice.

  5. Leetcode/Hackerrank: I've kind of shot myself in the foot by having switched accounts... Repeatedly. I think my newest one is about 2m old? I'll work on trying to be consistent and burning my way through what I can. Need to go over algos again pretty badly anyway.

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Final year of Uni, need to get a job. (programming.dev)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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So I'm going into my final year of Uni, passed the first semester with distinction. Unfortunately had to defer for a couple years but kept up studying since.

My job ended due to the unexpected passing of my boss. It was a great gig, WFH, flexible hours and not great, but decent pay. Not programming, though.

I need money to get through the year - and honestly, I really don't want to work at anything other than programming.

I'm not even that good. I know what SOLID principles & RESTful services are - but not really how to implement them. I've grinded a bit of leetcode and hackerrank and try my best to learn from the highest rated results only after finishing the assignment on my own. Can solve medium tier Q's, badly and inefficiently.

I know some Java, but only vanilla. I've used python a bit more, but mostly due to all the API's available for it. I know basic JS, HTML and CSS. I can set up a docker instance, but I haven't delved into it because I need to better understand the permissions behind the container and how to secure that properly. I've used Apache Tomcat to serve some localhost projects, and also to host things on AWS freetier and maybe Azure too? Can't remember. Built a DnD bot for a discord group of mine that's easily scalable and has been running with no issues for over a year.

I understand multithreading, Async and anonymous functions. Still getting the hang of using the latter across all languages. Need to figure out specifically wtf Lambda is because I think I might be misunderstanding it. Or the things I've read are referring to two different things.

I know enough SQL to google what I need, but need more exp with Databases in general (design in particular).

I suck at writing tests. Working to get better with that - note to self; how to check code coverage of tests.

There's definitely other things I've done, but I can't think of anything RN.

Am I still too green to be applying to JR roles? Also what kind of roles are there for Jr Dev's outside of webdev? Do I just search "Jr software developer" in job sites? (And on that note having done so, god there's not really much out there right now. Are you still supposed to be a JR with 3+ years exp?!) Any advice (or constructive criticism!) is very welcome.

Thank you for your time, and best of luck with everything you're up to. :)