Category: Cybersecurity
Here we break down complex topics into easy-to-understand guides and articles. From identifying phishing scams and preventing malware to understanding data breaches and securing your personal information, this is where you’ll find the knowledge you need to navigate the digital world safely.
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How To Make Sure Your Online Activity Is Tracked
Here is your step-by-step guide to ensuring big tech knows your exact location, heart rate, and what you almost bought at 2 AM. The Basics of Hygiene Mastering the Negative Signals Fun fact: The power of what you don’t do can actually be more powerful than what you do do. Network and Hardware Vulnerability There…
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Is Your Website’s front door locked?
Understanding the 2026 cPanel Crisis Reacting to: https://www.securityweek.com/over-40000-servers-compromised-in-ongoing-cpanel-exploitation/ If you’ve logged into your website’s control panel (cPanel) lately, you might have seen some frantic warnings about security updates or expired SSL certificates. While it looks like just another technical headache, there’s a real-world reason for the noise. Recently, a major security flaw (known as CVE-2026-41940)…
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The Dead Internet Reality: Why 51% of Your Traffic is No Longer Human
With the global population recently surpassing 8 billion, the number of people who actually speak up on the internet is far smaller than the total number of people who use it. If you look at the comments section of YouTube/Yahoo/etc. today, you aren’t just seeing a sample of the 8 billion people on Earth, you…
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What the Heck is a Passkey? Your Easy Guide to Password-Free Logins
by Shane Coursen with assistance from Gemini Tired of remembering dozens of complex passwords? Annoyed by those clunky two-factor codes? Get ready, because a new technology called passkeys is here to make your online life both easier and much, much safer. The Problem with Passwords For decades, passwords have been our digital keys. But let’s…
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Stop Panicking About the Latest Data Breach – Your PII is Likely Already Out There!
by Shane Coursen with assistance from Gemini Every time there’s news of a major data breach the same panic erupts: “Oh no, my PII (Personally Identifiable Information) has been compromised! Now I need to be careful!” Caution is always wise, however this reaction often stems from a significant misunderstanding. The uncomfortable truth is that for…
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You Spent Thousands on a Website. Now Watch It Get Hacked
by Shane Coursen with assistance from Gemni Most web designers are too busy talking about “user experience” and “brand identity” to tell you the truth: they’ve just built a target on your back. They hand over a shiny, new website, collect their check, and then disappear. But as a cybersecurity engineer, I see what happens…
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Google/YouTube is Extending Protections to More US-Based Teens
by Shane Coursen with assistance from Gemini More oversight! More tyranny!! People freaking out!!! Are we all riled up yet? Cool. Take a breath and let’s get down to brass tacks. Google recently put into effect a type of age verification system. It uses a variety of markers to guess a person’s age. those who…
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Secure Connections
What is Secure Connections? Secure connections: a connection that is encrypted by one or more security protocols to ensure the security of data flowing between two or more nodes. This week’s buried & forgotten news is next week’s big news! Chrome browser will begin to mark certain types of HTTP pages as not secure in…
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