At Narrative Science we believe in giving our engineers the freedom to innovate. We do this through an annual 3-day hackathon and quarterly hack days. In addition, we have an Incubation Team that works on prototyping ideas not otherwise found on our roadmap.
I have this hobby where I basically take things that I spend a lot of time with and use my coding skills to try to automate things as much as I can, particularly in the realm of the video games I play.
Lately I've been reading and hearing a lot about Chat Ops. It's a practice started by Github which uses a chat service like Hipchat or Slack with a bot user to provide feedback and insights into their infrastructure.
Today is the day I graduate from college! I think there is no better time to reflect on my college journey.
This is not a comprehensive guide; but should get you started and prevent you from getting pwned immediately.
Following these small steps will make you a much harder target to compromise, and are probably not worth most hackers time.
There are a lot of automated attacks going around and hitting known server cluster IP ranges looking for low hanging fruit and vulnerable servers they can exploit.