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Your Password Strategy Is Wrong and Making You Less Secure

blancos - August 28, 2025

The decades-old advice on password complexity is forcing users into insecure behaviors. Modern security requires a shift to passphrases, eliminating mandatory rotation, and embracing passwordless authentication.

Cyber Security

The Importance of Server Security & Ensuring Your Business’s Online Security

Cryptojackers and hackers

REvil is an ambitious hacking group that extorts tens of millions from victims

Amazon is finally getting serious about crypto and hopes to bring...

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Why API Security Is Your Biggest Unseen Threat Right Now

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Security Teams Are Asking the Wrong Questions About AI

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The Illusion of Secure by Default in Modern Cloud Services

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The Hidden Costs of Automated Security Tools

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The Real Problem With Security Awareness Training

August 21, 2025

The Unseen Cost of Cloud Migration

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Firewalls Alone Cannot Protect Your Cloud

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Leave a minimal digital footprint

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How Kenyans (and the world) are falling for a Bitcoin Scam

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Bitcoin scams seem to gain track in Kenya and globally overall. Here, Blancos explains how these scams operate, and how to really identify...

Cyber Security

Ransomware: Now and The Future

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Attack Lifecycle story – part 1

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How to build a data driven culture in your business

April 11, 2020 0

Making business decisions based on the best available data is fundamental, but not always easy. Technology, processes, and company culture can all have an impact on how data is used within an organisation. Digital leaders suggest organisations must focus on three key areas: strategy, culture, and agility, which was discussed at a recent event held [...]

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AI

Elon Musk’s company implanted chip into monkey’s brain – now he...

blancos - February 1, 2021 0

Tesla, SpaceX, and Neuralink CEO Elon Musk. Hannibal Hanschke-Pool/Getty Images Elon Musk's company Neuralink has already implanted a chip into a monkey's brain that enables it to "play video games using his mind."Musk claimed as much in a wide-ranging interview conducted on Clubhouse on Sunday nightNeuralink is focused on human-computer interfaces for artificial intelligence in [...]

When Your Private Photos Become AI Training Material

blancos - July 20, 2025 0

Facebook now requests access to analyze your unshared camera roll photos with Meta AI, raising privacy concerns. Learn practical steps to protect personal images.

Meta AI Chat Privacy Concerns

blancos - July 1, 2025 1

Discover how Meta AI can accidentally expose your private chats and learn simple steps to protect your information.

When AI Tools Slow Down Cybersecurity Experts

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Google Gemini Phone Access What It Means for Your Security

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Security and AI in 2022 and beyond

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Getting Ready for AI in Cybersecurity by 2027

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DuckDuckGo Lets You Filter AI Images From Search Results

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AI User Logs and the Surveillance Debate

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Kenya

Concerns about the ICT Bill 2024 in Kenya

What are the real intentions of tracking IMEI numbers?

Kenya leveraging on tech to combat counterfeits

MozzartBet turns heat on Sh256m software supplier

Meta/Facebook

Data privacy concerns will be amplified by the metaverse

TikTok, Meta can see user behavior on in-app browsers

Instagram won’t ever be Instagram again

Meta looks to the metaverse as it struggles in the present

Philosophy

The Double Bacon Cheeseburger in Plato’s Realm of Forms

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Cloud

On-Premises vs. Cloud Security

Information Security in the Time of Covid-19 – Moving to the Cloud as a Cost-Cutting Measure Does Not Lessen Compliance Obligations

Microsoft: Here’s how we’re trying to manage increased cloud demand

Amazon took data from its own sellers to develop competing products

Launching Oracle’s COVID-19 Therapeutic app: The back story

By Tony Baer (dbInsight) for Big on Data | April 10, 2020 -- 12:00 GMT (13:00 BST) | Topic: Coronavirus: Business and technology in a pandemic The input screen that patients see when using Oracle's COVID-19 therapeutic app Source: Oracle Among the many mysteries of the coronavirus is finding out which medications and therapies [...]