In the early 1990s, only a small number of researchers and enthusiasts used the Internet. Navigation relied on text-driven interfaces. Until Marc Andreessen, a

When Tamuna Museridze, a 40-year-old journalist from Georgia (the country), first suspected she might be adopted, the thought felt like something she couldn’t

The holiday season is the perfect excuse to give your website a warm, cheerful makeover. Whether you want to surprise visitors with a festive greeting, promote

Looking for a Christmas project that will make an impact? With a tiny device like a Raspberry Pi you can create an amazing light show. No coding required.

In 2011, the world met Lulz Security, better known as LulzSec, a rogue splinter group of the hacktivist collective Anonymous. Their name came from Internet

After years of wait, Stranger Things's Season 5 - the closing chapter of the Hawkins' saga - is arriving on Netflix. There are many reasons to love the show,

In the months leading up to the 2016 U.S. presidential election, a bizarre rumour began spreading across fringe corners of the internet. The claim? A

In the quiet town of Aliquippa, Pennsylvania, the 2018 murder of Rachel DelTondo shocked the community and quickly became the center of a media storm.

On March 15, 2019, in New Zealand, a gunman attacked two mosques in Christchurch during Friday prayers, killing 51 people. And he streamed it all in real time.

“Least privilege” is a security principles everyone agrees with, but few implement correctly. In practice, it’s about giving users just enough access.

Whether you want to test a particular configuration or you want to self-host your website, installing a WordPress instance on Linux has lots of advantages. The good news is that it won’t cost you a dime, and once you have ironed out the process, it won’t even take you that long to go from zero to a full-blown working website running on your local network. Here’s how to get started. 

In February 2011, a hidden website appeared on the Tor network with an unusual promise: a global bazaar where anyone could buy and sell illicit goods without fear of surveillance. Known as Silk Road, the site combined two emerging technologies: Tor hidden services for anonymity and Bitcoin for untraceable payments to build what was marketed as an unpoliceable marketplace.

In January, I started attending police-led training on CDR analysis through the American Association of Crime Analysts. This topic is particularly fascinating for anyone with a background in working with telcos and their data, as records can contain all sorts of valuable information. Especially when it comes to solving crime through time series analysis. 

When the first packet switching networks appeared in the late 1960s and early 1970s, they were isolated systems with their own rules and interfaces. Connecting

Hagbard Celine is one of the most mysterious figures in the hacker scene of the first generation. He has been the target of numerous myths and rumours, one of which involves espionage with the KGB and speculations about his disappearance. 

The holiday season is the perfect excuse to give your website a warm, cheerful makeover. Whether you want to surprise visitors with a festive greeting, promote

If you work in IT, cybersecurity, or digital compliance for a healthcare organization, you’ve likely heard “HIPAA compliance” more times than you can count.

In one of our previous articles, we introduced you to SSH authentication and its basic usage. However, you can’t use SSH as an authentication method unless the machine you want to log into isn’t preconfigured with an SSH server. This article covers the steps to set up a machine with SSH authentication. 

Once upon a time, the network perimeter was considered a solid defence against external threats. However, the evolution of attack vectors over the last twenty years has led to a security paradigm of no trust, regardless of location. This model is called Zero-Trust Architecture (ZTA).

Have you ever lost access to your WordPress website? Instead of wasting hours with your hosting provider trying to explain why you need their help and getting, most of the time, redirected to expensive professional services, here’s how you can do it in a few minutes and at zero cost. 

How do you access a computer without physically having access to it? How can you execute commands from another computer? Secure Shell (SSH) is one of the first tools you should know for remote access control. It’s the bread and butter for security testing, digital forensics, and system administration professionals. Here’s what you should know to get started. 

The UNIX operating system (OS) is a powerful, multiuser, multitasking system initially developed in the 1970s at Bell Labs. Known for its modular design and portability, UNIX has influenced many modern operating systems, including Linux, MacOS, and BSD variants. At its core, the architecture of UNIX follows a layered structure that provides simplicity, flexibility, and robust control over system resources.

Masters of Deception (also known as MOD) was one of the most infamous and important hacking groups of the late 1980s and early 1990s. Based in New York, this group was the fruit of a diaspora within the Legion of Doom hacking group. Together, these groups initiated the period known as the “hacking wars.”

If you’ve ever browsed a website from a European country, you have probably noticed the “cookie banner.” That’s one of the requirements for compliance with GDPR, the General Data Protection Regulation of the European Union. However, GDPR is much more than cookies. To date, it’s considered the strictest data regulation in the world. What you might not know is that it doesn’t only apply to Europe.