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Essential SQL Database Security Practices to Protect Your Data
29 Oct

Essential SQL Database Security Practices to Protect Your Data

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Securing SQL databases involves multiple best practices to safeguard data from unauthorized access, prevent SQL injection attacks, and ensure overall integrity. Here's a hands-on guide, focusing on practical steps you can implement immediately for database security. Step 1: Use Parameterized Queries Parameterized queries prevent SQL injection by separating SQL code from data. Instead of embedding user inputs directly into SQL statements, they are treated as parameters, keeping the structure of the query intact. Example in PHP: Suppose you want to retrieve user data based on an ID parameter: <?php // Connection to the database $conn = new PDO('mysql:host=localhost;dbname=my_database', 'username', 'password');…
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You Can Now See the Code That Helped End Apartheid
18 Oct

You Can Now See the Code That Helped End Apartheid

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John Graham-Cumming doesn’t ping me often, but when he does I pay attention. His day job is the CTO of the security giant Cloudflare, but he is also a lay historian of technology, guided by a righteous compass. He might be best known for successfully leading a campaign to force the UK government to apologize to the legendary computer scientist Alan Turing for prosecuting him for homosexuality and essentially harassing him to death. So when he DM’d me to say that he had “a hell of a story”—promising “one-time pads! 8-bit computers! Flight attendants smuggling floppies full of random numbers…
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Telegram will now provide IP addresses and phone numbers in response to legal requests
23 Sep

Telegram will now provide IP addresses and phone numbers in response to legal requests

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Telegram’s CEO Pavel Durov stated that the messaging app will now start handing over the IP addresses and phone numbers of users if prompted by legal requests. Bloomberg, which first the policy change, notes that Telegram has historically been "notoriously non-responsive to takedown requests" and "often ignored requests for information about suspected criminals."Accompanying this development is the implementation of some moderation. Telegram has started using AI, as well as a human moderation team, to remove "problematic" content from its search results, Durov said. Durov also asked users to report unsafe and illegal content to the team so they can remove…
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Discord is rolling out end-to-end encryption for voice and video calls
18 Sep

Discord is rolling out end-to-end encryption for voice and video calls

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Discord is rolling out new end-to-end encryption for both audio and video calls on its platform. The tech will be applied to calls from DMs, group DMs, voice channels and Go Live streams. Discord detailed the tech and its goals for the end-to-end encryption (E2EE) in a . Desktop and mobile clients already support the new upgrade, and the rest of the clients should be getting the feature next year.The company has focused on transparency with its E2EE protocols, and has made plenty of information about it . Discord is also promising that there should be no sacrifices to call…
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Telegram Faces a Reckoning. Other Founders Should Beware
29 Aug

Telegram Faces a Reckoning. Other Founders Should Beware

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“[Elon] Musk and fellow executives should be reminded of their criminal liability,” said Bruce Daisley, a former executive at Twitter, who worked at the company’s British office, days after British protesters tried to set fire to a hotel for asylum seekers.But Telegram has provoked politicians more than any other platform. What could be called the company’s uncollaborative approach has put the platform—part messaging app, part social media network—on a collision course with governments around the world.The case in France is far from the first time Telegram has been reprimanded by authorities for its refusal to cooperate. Telegram has been temporarily…
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Telegram CEO Pavel Durov’s Arrest Linked to Sweeping Criminal Investigation
26 Aug

Telegram CEO Pavel Durov’s Arrest Linked to Sweeping Criminal Investigation

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French prosecutors gave preliminary information in a press release on Monday about the investigation into Telegram CEO Pavel Durov, who was arrested suddenly on Saturday at Paris’ Le Bourget airport. Durov has not yet been charged with any crime, but officials said that he is being held as part of an investigation “against person unnamed” and can be held in police custody until Wednesday.The investigation began on July 8 and involves wide-ranging charges related to alleged money laundering, violations related to import and export of encryption tools, refusal to cooperate with law enforcement, and “complicity” in drug trafficking, possession and…
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Jasypt CLI tools for encryption and decryption
09 Aug

Jasypt CLI tools for encryption and decryption

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Recently I have started to use the Jasypt CLI tools. Before that, I have always had to use the tedious way with the Maven plugin just to do a simple encryption and decryption for any deployment update. This article is meant to complement the guides from the page Jasypt: Java simplified encryption. Table of contents Requirements Java JRE Terminal, in this example is the Git Bash on Windows. Downloading the distribution zip file of Jasypt - from the link in the file README in the Jasypt's GitHub repo. Steps Check the path to the default $JAVA_HOME $ echo $JAVA_HOME C:Usersyour.username.jdkscorretto-17.0.12…
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Apple to Allow Rivals to Access ‘Tap and Go’ Technology
11 Jul

Apple to Allow Rivals to Access ‘Tap and Go’ Technology

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Apple will allow rival companies to operate wallet technology on its iPhones free-of-charge for a decade, European Union regulators said on Thursday, in the latest overhaul prompted by local rules.Apple’s mobile wallet allows iPhone users to pay for products in-store and online using its own-brand Apple Pay. Until now, Apple has not made its near-field communication (NFC) technology, which allows phones to communicate with payment terminals, available to rival developers—causing the EU to warn in 2022 that restricting access to this technology qualifies as an abuse of market power.Apple’s concession ends a two-year dispute between the Big Tech giant and…
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How Apple Intelligence’s Privacy Stacks Up Against Android’s ‘Hybrid AI’
04 Jul

How Apple Intelligence’s Privacy Stacks Up Against Android’s ‘Hybrid AI’

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Yet Google and its hardware partners argue privacy and security are a major focus of the Android AI approach. VP Justin Choi, head of the security team, mobile eXperience business at Samsung Electronics, says its hybrid AI offers users “control over their data and uncompromising privacy.”Choi describes how features processed in the cloud are protected by servers governed by strict policies. “Our on-device AI features provide another element of security by performing tasks locally on the device with no reliance on cloud servers, neither storing data on the device nor uploading it to the cloud,” Choi says.Google says its data centers are designed…
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