Field Notes: Five Ways Footprinting Succeeds, and How to Close Them
OSINT is big enough that security professionals specialize in it full time. Here are five broad categories of exposure worth knowing about, with concrete steps to mitigate each one.
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Why Small Businesses Are Falling Behind on Cybersecurity
JPMorgan Chase spends roughly $600 million a year on cybersecurity. Meanwhile, just 5% of small business owners surveyed in 2022 called it their biggest risk. The information for this post was gathered and sourced in 2024 when most of the content was written. Though the...
TrendyCafe: One Mistyped Address, a Keylogger, and a Crypto Miner
A single typo in a web address was enough to put credential-stealing malware on a small café's computers. Here's the cleanup, and the layered defenses that would have stopped it. Simulated case study. TrendyCafe, its owner, and this incident are fictional, written as a class...