{"id":8843,"date":"2017-08-21T14:45:43","date_gmt":"2017-08-21T22:45:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2017\/08\/21\/news-2616\/"},"modified":"2017-08-21T14:45:43","modified_gmt":"2017-08-21T22:45:43","slug":"news-2616","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2017\/08\/21\/news-2616\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018VanitySec\u2019 Is Where Hackers Get Fashion Tips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/video-images.vice.com\/articles\/599b533b0065ee666364b181\/lede\/1503351611627-PHb5ULHB.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Credit to Author: Louise Matsakis| Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2017 21:54:32 +0000<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> Want a purse for fall that can also conceal an <a href=\"https:\/\/vanitysec.com\/2017\/08\/20\/fall-bags-to-conceal-your-rfid-reading-device\/\" target=\"_blank\">RFID reader<\/a>? Looking for <a href=\"https:\/\/vanitysec.com\/2017\/08\/18\/cute-hand-warmers-for-debugging\/\" target=\"_blank\">hand warmers<\/a> to keep your digits toasty while you debug some code? <a href=\"http:\/\/vanitysec.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">VanitySec<\/a>, a new blog created by a group of fashionable information security (infosec) professionals, has got you covered.<\/p>\n<p> The site emerged from a Twitter group chat between a dozen or so women working in infosec. &#8220;Last week we started spitballing ideas for blog posts, half joking, but Amanda (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/malwareunicorn\" target=\"_blank\">@malwareunicorn<\/a>) opened the WordPress and made us contributors&#8230;so here we are,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mzbat\" target=\"_blank\">@mzbat<\/a>, one of the site&#8217;s writers, told me over Twitter DM.<\/p>\n<div style=\"max-width: 550px;\" data-iframely-id=\"2DwMRO2\" class=\"article__embed article__embed--iframely\">\n<div style=\"left: 0; width: 100%; height: 0; position: relative; padding-bottom: 100%;\" data-iframely-smart-iframe=\"true\"><iframe  src= width=\"100%\" height=\"420\" frameborder=\"0\" ><\/iframe> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p> &#8220;I guess it started as a Twitter dm with some awesome people and we exchanged makeup and fashion tips (new brands\/products) which I love,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/_sn0ww\" target=\"_blank\">@_sn0ww<\/a>, another contributor, told me. <\/p>\n<p>VanitySec already has a handful of posts, a dedicated Twitter account, and a number of contributors with more articles in the works.<\/p>\n<div style=\"max-width: 550px;\" data-iframely-id=\"xzI4ZZK\" class=\"article__embed article__embed--iframely\">\n<div style=\"left: 0; width: 100%; height: 0; position: relative; padding-bottom: 100%;\" data-iframely-smart-iframe=\"true\"><iframe  src= width=\"100%\" height=\"420\" frameborder=\"0\" ><\/iframe> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p> &#8220;It started as a joke. I wanted to make a parody Vogue cover just for infosec jokes&#8230;after chatting with some of the other ladies, we came up with a bunch of article ideas,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/malwareunicorn\" target=\"_blank\">@malwareunicorn<\/a>, the site&#8217;s founder, said over Twitter DM. <\/p>\n<p>Though it started in jest, VanitySec is filling a legitimate need in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/cyber-security-field-gender-gap_us_56097b43e4b0768126fe6af6\" target=\"_blank\">male-dominated<\/a> field. It&#8217;s hard to find out what to wear in a cold tech office, or when you&#8217;re going to speak at a security conference, when you identify as female. VanitySec is a place to spread information about clothes, makeup, and hairstyles suited for security work. <\/p>\n<p>It also could help make groups that are often unrepresented in the profession feel more like they belong.<\/p>\n<p> <b> Read More: <\/b><b><a href=\"https:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/8q8x3g\/female-hackers-still-face-harassment-at-conferences\"> <b>Female Hackers Still Face Harassment at Conferences<\/b><\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p> While reactions to the site have been overwhelmingly positive, @mzbat mentioned that a few men have also complained that the site has featured only women&#8217;s clothing so far. But she doesn&#8217;t see it as non-inclusive (plus, the site <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/malwareunicorn\/status\/899699995854503937\" target=\"_blank\">plans<\/a> to add a masculine section).<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;I think, if anything it&#8217;s a way to help marginalized folks (women, trans, fem) feel welcome in our community,&#8221; @mzbat told me. &#8220;At least that&#8217;s our hope. Like it&#8217;s ok to not be masculine in tech.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/mbb3ga\/vanitysec-is-where-hackers-get-fashion-tips\" target=\"bwo\" >https:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/en_us\/rss<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/video-images.vice.com\/articles\/599b533b0065ee666364b181\/lede\/1503351611627-PHb5ULHB.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Credit to Author: Louise Matsakis| Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2017 21:54:32 +0000<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The new website that gets working in InfoSec doesn\u2019t mean you can\u2019t be stylish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[10643,13328,10378],"tags":[13920,13919,3919,10573,454,4815],"class_list":["post-8843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-independent","category-motherboard","category-security","tag-blogging","tag-fashion","tag-hacking","tag-infosec","tag-twitter","tag-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}