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🤔Retro’ing and Debugging 2024: a year of data, books, APIs, BOTs & AI
This is a submission for the 2025 New Year Writing challenge: Retro’ing and Debugging 2024. 🤗 About 2024 was an incredible year filled with challenges, achievements, and an abundance of – sometimes unexpected – learning opportunities that came to me on my way. Reflecting on the year, here are some of the highlights that shaped…
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Understanding the TAKE IT DOWN Act: What It Means for Digital Safety and Cyber Awareness
Discover what the TAKE IT DOWN Act is, why it matters for combating AI deepfakes and non-consensual imagery, and what’s next in the fight to enhance digital safety and protect personal privacy. Go to Source
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Your Digital Footprint: How AI Tracks and Uses Your Online Activity
Whenever you’re surfing the internet, every click, search, and scroll leaves behind a small trace known as a digital footprint. While it might seem harmless to browse your favorite websites or interact on social media, artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms are monitoring and analyzing every digital action. These algorithms can build detailed profiles based on your…
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Scams Based on Fake Google Emails
Scammers are hacking Google Forms to send email to victims that come from google.com. Brian Krebs reports on the effects. Boing Boing post. Scammers are hacking Google Forms to send email to victims that come from google.com. Brian Krebs reports on the effects. Boing Boing post. Go to Source
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New SAFECode Member Council to Ensure Greater Industry Collaboration on Software Security
Oracle’s John Heimann and Siemens Energy’s Manuel Ifland Elected to Lead the Member Council WAKEFIELD, Mass. – March 6, 2024 – SAFECode has announced a new Member Council to direct its industry-led efforts to advance software security practices. Chaired by John Heimann, Vice President of Security Program Management at Oracle, and Vice Chaired by Manuel…
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Elasticsearch: Cluster Status is RED
It happens very rarely, but sometimes your cluster gets red status. Red status means that not only has the primary shard been lost but also that the replica has not been upgraded to primary in its place. However, as in the case of yellow status, you should not panic and start firing commands without finding…
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CVE-2024-49112 Detection: Zero-Click PoC Exploit for a Critical LDAP RCE Vulnerability Can Crush Unpatched Windows Servers
In 2024, vulnerability exploitation accounted for 14% of breach entry points, marking a nearly threefold increase from the previous year—a trend that could persist into 2025. At the turn of January 2025, defenders released the first PoC exploit that can crash unpatched Windows Servers by leveraging a critical RCE vulnerability in the Windows Lightweight Directory…
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Strela Stealer Attack Detection: New Malware Variant Now Targets Ukraine Alongside Spain, Italy, and Germany
Security experts have uncovered a novel Strela Stealer campaign, which leverages a new iteration of email credential-stealing malware. In this campaign, the updated malware version is enriched with enhanced functionality and is now capable of gathering system configuration data via the “system info” utility. Moreover, Strela Stealer expanded its targets beyond Spain, Italy, and Germany…
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Reducing Kafka Lag: Optimizing Kafka Performance
Apache Kafka is a powerful distributed messaging system, but like any system, it can face performance bottlenecks. One of the most common challenges is Kafka lag—the delay between producing and consuming messages. Addressing Kafka lag is crucial for maintaining real-time data pipelines and ensuring optimal performance. In this article, we explore practical strategies to reduce…