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Cloud security

Designing Least Privilege in the cloud

In traditional environments, access control typically stops at the server boundary. In the cloud, however, a single misconfigured role can open your entire environment to compromise. Attackers no longer need

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Cyberpsychology

Autism, Asperger traits, and hacking

The hacking world has always attracted people with a strong interest in systems, logic, and digital problem solving. Several well known figures, such as Gary McKinnon, Albert Gonzalez, and Adrian

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Cybercrime

Jonathan James, aka “c0mrade”

In the late 1990s, a teenage boy from Florida sat alone in his bedroom, in front of his computer. Instead of doing homework or playing video games, Jonathan James, known

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Social media

Behind Telegram: Pavel Durov

Pavel Durov is one of the most influential yet enigmatic figures in contemporary digital communications. His role in creating VKontakte and later Telegram positioned him at the centre of global

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Cybercrime

LulzSec, hackers trolling the world

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 slang: “lulz” (laughs at someone

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Cybercrime

OSINT for human trafficking investigation

Human trafficking remains one of the most hidden and devastating crimes of our time. It thrives in in unregulated online spaces, private messaging platforms, and transnational networks that exploit both

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Social media

Behind Facebook: Mark Zuckerberg

Mark Zuckerberg is the quintessential figure who shaped modern social media platforms: with Facebook he wanted to connect the world. He ended up controlling it.  The dorm room experiment In

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Conspiracy theories

Pizzagate’s role in viral disinformation

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 Washington, D.C. pizza restaurant, Comet

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