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The security industry somehow believes your mother's maiden name is a highly guarded secret. Systems lock down your account with encrypted passwords, only to…
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Giving users a button titled 'Turbo' makes them feel incredibly powerful, until they realize it does the exact opposite. This famous button didn't speed…
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Basic locks are laughably easy to pick, so engineers added tiny, defensively shaped pins. When a thief tries to blindly shove them upward, the mushroom-shaped…
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The secure EMV metallic chip sitting on your current bank card was actually pioneered in France during the mid-1980s. Originally deployed to combat rampant…
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Also known as an XML entity expansion attack, this vulnerability is beautifully malicious. A hacker writes a tiny text file where 'lol' is defined as ten…
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Free airport Wi-Fi feels like a lifesaver when you’re stuck between flights. But here’s the sting: every network you connect to could be more than just a…
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