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How to Prevent Malware: 15 Best Practices for Malware Prevention

eSecurity Planet

Secure practices like robust admin passwords and advanced encryption ensure control over traffic, safeguarding personal information and increasing the odds of a secure online experience. Proper home router practices , such as enabling encryption settings and providing strong default admin passwords, will dramatically improve network security.

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FELIXROOT Backdoor is back in a new fresh spam campaign

Security Affairs

The new spam campaign used weaponized documents claiming to provide information on a seminar on environmental protection efforts. The traffic to the C2 is encrypted with AES and converted into Base64. Data sent over the network is encrypted and arranged in a custom structure. ” reads the analysis published by FireEye.

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10 Personal Finance Lessons for Technology Professionals

Troy Hunt

But that was a tiny portion of the education with the vast bulk of it made up of reading books and magazines, going to seminars, hanging out on forums and frankly, also learning by making mistakes. Incidentally, the talk I referenced earlier on Hack Your Career covers all of this in more detail.) We lost money on shares. Motivation No.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: The Right To Repair

ForAllSecure

How do the current DMCA laws impact those who hack digital devices? In a moment I’ll talk with someone who is leading the Right to Repair movement in the United States and discuss how current laws impact those who hack digital devices. It’s about challenging our expectations about people who hack for a living.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: The Right To Repair

ForAllSecure

How do the current DMCA laws impact those who hack digital devices? In a moment I’ll talk with someone who is leading the Right to Repair movement in the United States and discuss how current laws impact those who hack digital devices. It’s about challenging our expectations about people who hack for a living.

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