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Hi Guys,

It gives me great pleasure to tell you that you Learning Security With Mayur has now a twitter presence too. You can connect and spread the love on Twitter too.

Use #LearningSecurityWithMayur when you retweet the posts on Twitter.

My handle is @LearnWithMayur.

Looking forward to meeting you there.




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