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Cybersecurity sits at the intersection of software, systems, and adversarial thinking. In this category, I write about vulnerabilities, authentication, encryption, secure coding, penetration testing, network security, and the techniques used to protect modern applications and computer systems.
Strong security requires more than tools and checklists. It requires understanding how attackers think, how systems break, and how software becomes exploitable in the real world. If you want to better understand both defense and offense, this category is a strong place to start.
Browse the articles below to explore cybersecurity through a computer science lens.
A ransomware attack is not a single event. It is a campaign that typically unfolds over days to weeks between initial compromise and encryption. Attackers spend most of that time establishing …
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Perimeter security assumes everyone inside the network is trusted and everything outside is hostile. Zero trust assumes breach: no user, device, or service is trusted by default regardless of network …
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A buffer overflow writes data past the end of an allocated buffer, overwriting adjacent memory including the return address on the stack. Historically this let attackers inject shellcode directly. …
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I've worked IT for some of the largest and coolest organizations on the planet. I've also lost plenty of hair cleaning the systems of associates and friends who were the unwilling witness to how …
