Topic: security practices
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Corporate Data Theft: Cloud File-Sharing Sites Under Attack
A cybercriminal group named Zestix is selling sensitive data stolen from dozens of organizations by exploiting compromised employee credentials on cloud file-sharing platforms. The breaches highlight systemic security failures, including a lack of multi-factor authentication and outdated password...
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Duplicati: Free Open-Source Backup Software
Duplicati is a free, cross-platform backup tool that creates encrypted, incremental, and compressed backups from local data for storage on various cloud services and remote servers. It offers flexible restoration, allowing recovery of individual files or entire folders from any backup version, an...
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Unlock SEO Success: Your Web Hosting Matters
Your web hosting provider critically influences SEO by affecting performance metrics like page load speeds, uptime, and Core Web Vitals, which Google uses to rank websites. Hosting infrastructure directly impacts Core Web Vitals scores, with features such as SSD storage, HTTP/3 support, and CDNs ...
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DragonForce Cartel: The New Conti Ransomware Threat
DragonForce is a new ransomware operation built on Conti's leaked source code, operating as a decentralized criminal network by recruiting affiliates to create their own variants. It uses Conti's encryption methods and has demonstrated operational seriousness by threatening data destruction and l...
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Delete These 12 Android Apps Spying on Your Conversations
ESET security researchers discovered twelve apps containing VajraSpy spyware, which can secretly record conversations and steal sensitive data through deceptive tactics. The malware spreads via fake profiles on messaging platforms that build fake romantic relationships to trick users into install...
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PowerSchool Hacker Sentenced to 4 Years in Prison
A 19-year-old Massachusetts college student received a four-year prison sentence for orchestrating a 2024 cyberattack on PowerSchool, compromising tens of millions of students' and teachers' personal data globally. The attackers used stolen subcontractor credentials to breach systems, exfiltratin...
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UK NCSC Backs Public Disclosure of AI Security Flaws
UK cybersecurity and AI authorities advocate for crowdsourced initiatives to identify and address AI vulnerabilities, emphasizing the rising risks from malicious exploitation of advanced platforms. In response to AI system breaches, developers have launched bug bounty programs to incentivize ethi...
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Inside 2025: How Developers Work & Code Today
AI adoption in software development is uneven, with only 22% of developers using it daily, though sectors like IT and SaaS show higher usage (76%); ChatGPT is the dominant AI tool, preferred by 82% of developers. Security is now largely handled in-house (80% of companies), integrated into workflo...
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