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Safeguarding Our Digital Lives: As Prevention is Better than the Cure

Today, I stumbled upon some deeply concerning news regarding the unauthorized leak of private pictures belonging to a 16-year-old girl from her online account. This incident serves as a stark reminder of the risks we face in the digital world. We must exercise caution and thoughtfulness when sharing anything online, as once something is uploaded, it can be extremely challenging and almost impossible to completely remove it. Almost all of us know the trouble we have to go to remove our own pictures from fake profiles from social media and their customer support is nearly non-existent.

Understanding massive ZeroDay impacting Dogecoin and 280+ networks including Litecoin and Zcash

Halborn discovered a massive #ZeroDay vulnerability code-named Rab13s impacting Dogecoin and 280+ networks, including Litecoin and Zcash, putting over $25 Billion of digital assets at risk. To understand the zero-day vulnerability Rab13s, we need to go through some basic concepts. So I would like to explain blockchain and its key characteristics. Blockchain is a data structure used to represent a cryptocurrency. Stores data in a way that allows multiple parties to access it reliably without having to trust one another.

Musked and Mistaken: How I Fell for Three Crypto Scams (And What I Learned)

I have been an active participant in the crypto space since August 2017 and I consider myself to be pretty tech-savvy. However, I have been shocked every time I’ve fallen victim to a phishing scam. Unfortunately, it has happened to me three times now. The first time I was phished, I had just opened a new wallet and gave away my seed phrase to a scam website. I was new to the space and didn’t know any better, so I thought it was okay.

Using ssh-keygen for generating ssh keys

I wanted to create a ssh key for the web server ssh login. I searched and found this article . I have used ssh-keygen in the past by reading a tutorial, but this time I wanted to learn about it properly After reading the article, I learned I could select the cryptographic algorithm for generating the key. ssh-keygen -t algotype -b keysize -f /path/filename I tried generating the keys with different algorithms and different key sizes.

Critical security alert | Failed login attempts detected

When I checked my email today, I received the following email from my bitwarden. Additional security has been placed on your Bitwarden account. We’ve detected several failed attempts to log into your Bitwarden account. Future login attempts for your account will be protected by a captcha. Account: myemail Date: Friday, September 2, 2022 at 1:49 PM UTC IP Address: 223.196.188.87 If this was you, you can remove the captcha requirement by successfully logging in.

Error: No Toolchains Found in the NDK Toolchains Folder

I was trying to export an old version of the android app from GitHub into the android studio, the project was not showing any issues in compilation however, as i tried to run the project, I encountered a run time error in the android studio log showed there is a Gradle sync error with message “No toolchains found in the NDK toolchains folder for ABI with prefix: arm-linux-androideabi”. For a solution, I search StackOverflow and found this theard .