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Why scams can be harder to spot when you’re new at work
Your first few weeks at a new job are full of things you don’t understand yet. You don’t know how your boss normally writes, which login pages are genuine, whether Finance really does send urgent ...
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How to create a family privacy policy for sharenting and online life
New YouGov research shows privacy matters to parents and children. Here’s how families can agree on shared rules for posts, apps, messages, location sharing and growing independence. Families have r...
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What is a man-in-the-middle (MITM) attack and why is it dangerous?
A man-in-the-middle (MITM) attack is a type of cyberattack where a malicious actor secretly positions themselves between two communicating parties, typically a user and a website, app, or online servi...
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The hidden retention crisis in open source (and how FOSSASIA is solving it)
I spent the weekend watching young developers at a FOSSASIA hackathon do something that would likely trigger an HR review in the corporate world: they were actively helping their competitors. When one...
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We bet big on Rust. But what does it actually take to keep it alive?
When we tore down our Lightway protocol last year and rebuilt it from scratch in Rust, the engineering logic was airtight. We wanted absolute memory safety. We wanted a codebase that security auditors...
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Credential dumping explained: How to detect and prevent it
When attackers break into an organization, they often aren’t after one machine or files on it. They’re after the credentials: the usernames, passwords, and authentication tokens that unlock everyt...
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How to identify and prevent backdoor attacks
A backdoor is a way to access a system outside normal login processes. It may be created intentionally for maintenance or troubleshooting, or unintentionally through insecure or flawed code. A backdoo...
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How to remove malware from Mac: The complete cleanup checklist
While macOS malware exists and continues to grow, it remains less prevalent than malware targeting Windows. Apple uses multiple layers of protection, including the App Store, Gatekeeper, Notarization,...
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What is a cybersecurity risk assessment and how does it work?
Security decisions are only as good as an organization's understanding of its own environment. When that understanding is incomplete, teams can struggle to see where real risk exists or how serious it...
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Cybersecurity vulnerabilities explained
Nearly every organization has some weaknesses in its digital defenses. Attackers hunt for cybersecurity vulnerabilities in software, networks, and configurations, as well as chances to exploit human e...
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