Month: September 2024

It’s Estimated That 91% Of Cyber Attacks Begin With Phishing Emails

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Alright, enough of this tiptoeing around the problem – let’s talk about cybersecurity, or rather, the total failure of it! For years, cybersecurity experts have been shouting from the rooftops, “It’s not if you’ll get hit with a cyber attack, but when!” And guess what? Companies still aren’t getting the message! 91% of cyberattacks start … Read more

Matt Mullenweg calls WP Engine a ‘cancer to WordPress’ and urges community to switch providers

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Automattic CEO and WordPress co-creator Matt Mullenweg unleashed a scathing attack on a rival firm this week, calling WP Engine a “cancer to WordPress.” Mullenweg criticized the company — which has been commercializing the open source WordPress project since 2010 — for profiteering without giving much back, while also disabling key features that make WordPress … Read more

The “Web of Trust” Principle or How PGP Works

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Your messengers, HTTPS protocol sites, authorization in Internet services, secure file storage, and sometimes even alarm clocks – all these things use PGP. But what is it anyway? Wikipedia gives the following definition: Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) is an encryption program that provides cryptographic privacy and authentication for data communication. PGP is used for signing, encrypting, and decrypting texts, e-mails, files, directories, and whole disk partitions … Read more