What’s supposed to happen when penetration testers get caught? Not this. It was a normal Wednesday night at the Dallas County Courthouse in Adel, Iowa on Sept. 11, 2019. Nothing seemed to be amiss. Except, of course, for the two men who had broken into the courthouse and were now walking around the building. The two men, penetration testers working for Colorado-based cybersecurity firm Coalfire, had apparently tripped an alarm system in the building. Police showed up at around 12:30 a.m. and fo

They teach you a lot of different things at j-school. Information security skills don’t tend to be among them. They should be. For the most part, journalists only take hostile environment training before being sent to war zones or on other dangerous assignments. Not all journalists carry out that type of reporting, but try to find a journalist that doesn’t use the internet during the course of their work. Back in 2018, the Columbia Journalism Review found that only half of journalism schools in