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Ali Taherian is an enthusiastic information security Officer. He’s finished his education in information security and has recently been involved in banking software and payment security industry. Taherian is proud to be certified as CISM, CISA, ECSA, and IBM Cloud Computing Solution Advisor and enjoys sharing and tweeting about security advances and news.
- “Secrets of Google’s Information Security Team ” https://t.co/Vct1GwwNYG13 days ago
- 14k HIV+ records leaked, Singapore says sorry https://t.co/Fx4kwWTUEc48 days ago
- Sophisticated fingerprint alteration helps suspect evade capture for 15 years https://t.co/6QBYq9rbrG48 days ago
- RT @TroelsOerting: Sad and bad week. DRNK revelation of hack on SONY, SWIFT and distribution of WannaCry. Russian GRU very active in multip…170 days ago
- RT @neirajones: Preparing to Release the #OWASP #IoT Top 10 2018 https://t.co/cCSmVTmtBB #infosec #appsec #DevSecOps @owasp https://t.co/…174 days ago
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