DECIPHER

Cybersecurity, Privacy & Cryptocurrency

If you’re new and wondering what Bitcoin is, this is an easy-to-understand video about how it works.

Welcome to the magic of internet money…

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What are email trackers?

You may be surprised to learn that 70% of emails contain trackers that can detect when you’ve opened a message

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The main cause of data breaches and ransomware attacks being implemented, people getting doxed and BGP/DNS misconfigurations.

Not only can human error be responsible for DNS misconfiguration, it’s responsible for data breaches and ransomware attacks

Time and time again, Facebook has proven itself a big problem for digital freedoms. This time is no different. From Cambridge Analytica where over 70 million accounts were affected in 2018, 11,000,000 from the U.K. alone to a data breach of 500 million earlier this year, it's evident no one cares about their privacy and/or data. Facebook and its other 92 acquisitions, i.e. Instagram and WhatsApp, as well as another 90 that Facebook has acquired over the past decade and a half.

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The Pandora Papers leak includes 6.4 million documents, almost three million images, more than a million emails and almost half-a-million spreadsheets.

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The idea behind the COVID-19 passport is to keep track of who has and who hasn’t been vaccinated, it’s a way for government entities such as airlines to validate if someone is safe to enter a country or not.

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Mobilecoin is the cryptocurrency used with Signal messenger for sending and receiving private transactions from within the messenger app. However, it has stirred up some controversy as it's pre-mined, no one had heard of it and there are other more well know options like Bitcoin (on the lightning network) and Monero.

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You may have heard about ProtonMail's legally justified IP log case in recent news, if not, I wrote about it here

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It's mine blowing. Especially with the world energy crisis's looming effects.

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A botnet is a zombie army of devices that have been infected with malware to centrally control coordinated operations.

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