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Let's learn about via these 67 free stories. They are ordered by most time reading created on HackerNoon. Visit the to find the most read stories about any technology. Big Tech /Learn Repo 1. On Product and Parkour Product, Parkour, and Pioneering: how the role of product management varies by stage of company 2. The Internet Belongs to Everyone Normalizing the behavior of businesses to set the social standards for freedom of expression is a slippery slope. 3. Is Big Tech Too Big? A couple of weeks ago Alphabet shares dropped 6%, Facebook tanked 7.5%, and Amazon shed 4.5% of its value. Why did this happen? An anti-trust probe was called into life regarding Alphabet’s Google Search business and investors fear a similar fate for its tech brethren, seemingly rightfully so: This news story unearths a public debate that has been discussed intensively since the 2016 US elections concerning Big Tech’s power and the need for anti-trust legislation. A debate, which appears to have the nearly unanimous agreement that these companies should be broken up. Logically, therefore, these firms should already be broken up, yet they are not. Why is this? Aside from the strawman “The government is corrupt/incompetent” reasoning, there actually exist multiple genuine arguments for keeping Big Tech intact, which we’ll be examining in the following. 4. Why Working in a Startup Is More Rewarding Than a Career in Big-Tech Five reasons of why working in a startup might be more rewarding than position in a big-name company for specialists, who are focused on career achievements. 5. How COVID-19 Has Impacted Venture Capital Funding Remember when we thought COVID was just a horrible stage in our lives that would disappear after a month of masks and hand sanitizer? Oh, how sweet and naïve we were. As the pandemic marches on and many countries consider a second lockdown, businesses are having to look back on how they have managed these last 7 months and strategize for a corona-filled future. 6. Here's Where Big Tech Lags Behind “There’s an old saying, ‘Things move at the speed of trust,’” Brian Chesky, co-founder, and chief executive of Airbnb. 7. Using Blockchain to Facilitate End-to-End Encryption (E2EE) Since Satoshi Nakamoto came up with the first conceptualized blockchain in 2008, that was an improvement on the system using a methodology similar to Hashcash which also led to the implementation of the first cryptocurrency Bitcoin in 2009, the blockchain has found a lot of uses in the business world. This is largely due to a lot of useful features inherent in the blockchain technology. 8. Is the Grass Greener On the Tech Giants' Side? The grass isn’t always greener on the other side. Here are some things to consider before applying for a Tech Company. 9. Black Mirror in Real Life: Facebook Now Owns and is Developing a City Here are the reasons why big tech companies are building cities. Also, know why many are worried. 10. Linh Dao Smooke & David Smooke repping Hacker Noon at the Mozilla Fix the Internet Showcase I joined a panel with awesome fellow founders and builders of Mozilla to discuss the future of "citizen publishing" as a way to democratize the internet. 11. Tech Giants are in a Race to Dominate the AI Frontier The evolution of AI is shaping up to be a dynamic and rapidly evolving landscape, with a few large companies currently leading the way. 12. Elon Musk and The Worst-Case Scenario of a Nuclear Apocalypse Elon Musk. Business. Tech. Politics. What could go wrong? 13. Everyone Works for Facebook and Google Imagine a car factory where nameless workers in a sprawling complex make expensive cars all day and all night.  Thousands of shiny, new expensive cars move off the line every millisecond and are shipped instantly all over the world to wealthy buyers, generating $195 million of profit daily for the car company. 14. Is Self-Harm Amongst Teenage Girls On the Rise Because of Instagram? Between 2010 and 2014, rates of self-harm, depression, and anxiety among teenage girls doubled; is Instagram to blame? 15. From Wojcicki to Mohan: A Look at the Future of YouTube Under the New CEO In light of Susan Wojcicki's departure as the CEO of Youtube, what is the future of the company like? 16. What Netflix Should Consider Before Diving into Gaming Netflix adding some sort of gaming module to their current service brings to mind that in-flight entertainment option you get on long-haul flights. 17. A Letter from TheMarkup.org Editor Julia Angwin Dear Readers, 18. How Big Tech is Working Towards a Password-Free Future A 2019 research conducted by HYPR showed that 78% of people forgot their passwords and required a reset within the last 90 days. Passwords aren’t just difficult to manage, they are inconvenient, insecure, and expensive because passwords are just too easy to guess, hack or intercept and what’s more, the legacy of password reuse is leading to constant attack and account vulnerabilities. 19. How Big Tech Influences Privacy Laws The Markup reviewed public hearing testimony in all 31 states that have considered consumer data privacy legislation since 2021 and found a campaign by Big Tech 20. Proposal to Gab.com and Andrew Torba: Let's Crush "Big Tech" Together One of the people in tech that gets an unfair bad rep is Andrew Torba. Infact, I had a Gab account since 2017, and though I am barely active, I don't have many problems with the service. 21. 5 to 23 Patterns to Ace Any Coding Interview How to prep for coding interviews by using patterns to figure out how to guess the most likely questions to be asked in many programming job interviews. 22. Big Tech Vs. Big Government: The Choice is Pretty Bleak A group of bipartisan lawmakers hopes to pass antitrust legislation that takes aim at tech giants buying out the competition and hoarding data. 23. Opinion: There’s Nothing Wrong With Being Tracked by Google Why you should be happy about companies collecting your data. 24. How to Survive Our Dystopian Future: A Practical List of Do's and Don'ts In the right hands, tech can set us free—but it's in the wrong hands right now. So what can you do to prepare? Read this. 25. The Noonification: How Big Tech Influences Privacy Laws (11/24/2022) 11/24/2022: Top 5 stories on the Hackernoon homepage! 26. 7 Serious Security Issues in Big Data and How to Address Them Businesses will be able to reach their ultimate aim of leveraging data for better customer experience and retention if they use Big Data effectively. 27. AMD Posts Q4 Earnings Growth, Despite Industry Challenges; Expects to Capitalize on AI Demand The fourth quarter saw a 51% decline in revenue for AMD's client segment, but this decline was offset by a 42% increase in revenue for AMD's data center segment 28. Netflix Seeks Higher Revenues by Reaching More Subscribers Despite Ongoing Economic Downturn Netflix reported its fourth-quarter earnings on Jan. 19 showing growth in subscribers. Following the results, the company’s stock increased by almost 6%. 29. A Deeper Look at Facebook's PR Strategy Gideon Lichfield takes a deeper look at Facebook's PR strategy. 30. Big Tech Companies are Killing Kubernetes: Here's How Noah Kantrowitz explains how big tech companies are killing Kubernetes. 31. A Suggestion: How Can Parler Become Truly Censorship Resistant? Unsurprisingly, I am not a big fan of censorship. The social network known as Parler aims to be a censorship-resistant social network or form of alternative media to Twitter. 32. Intel Focusing on Innovation, Growing Portfolio in Face of Declining Revenues, Fierce Competition Intel faces a number of rivals in addition to a battle to maintain its position as the largest chip maker in America by revenue. 33. Apple's iPad, Services Unit Shines Amid Revenue Decline; AI Integration in Products in the Works Q1 2023 earning results were one of the least impressive quarters for apple in recent memory. For the first time in four years, Apple's quarterly revenue fell. 34. TikTok, Other Foreign Apps Could be Subject to New Limits as US Lawmakers Consider New Rules Donald Trump tried it, now Joe Biden plans to do it...ban TikTok. The concern? Data Sovereignty, especially when the app is influenced by a foreign nation. 35. BigTech Spent Big Money in 2021 on Lobbying, Buying Up Competition Amazon and Facebook are the largest corporate spenders on lobbying. BigTech is buying up the competition. Together, this puts a huge strain on US regulators. 36. Big Tech’s Coronavirus Response Paves a New Path for Anti-Misinformation Efforts Dealing with misinformation has always been, let’s say, a touchy subject for Big Tech. 37. Big Tech Companies: Time For A Breakup? The 5 tech companies we will discuss are referred to as FAAMG: Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, and Google. The earned revenues of those tech companies equated to 68% of US GDP growth in 2018. In terms of global traffic, Google, YouTube (which is owned by Google), and Facebook are the three most visited websites. With this, comes enormous power. For example, in terms of global traffic share, Facebook-owned sites controlled a huge segment of social media and messaging. 38. Behind The Google and Facebook Collusion - A Thread Patrick McGee describes the collusion between Google and Facebook. 39. Illusion of Choice: You Aren't Deciding How Important Your Privacy Is The above statement is easily the most eloquent justification of privacy that I've seen. Thanks in large part to Snowden, the past decade has seen large parts of society become serious about data privacy, but it still feels like an overwhelming number of people can't be bothered to give this issue even a second of their time. 40. Anything Big Biz Can Do, Blockchain can do Better As crypto again enters the bull market limelight, things feel different this time. The decentralised merger of Dune Network with Free TON offers insight to why. 41. Who Has the Power to Break Up Big Tech? The Big Five tech companies — Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft and Google owner Alphabet — have come under serious scrutiny in the past few years. 42. Ditching Big Tech for a More Decentralised Life With privacy and security issues, daily ransomware attacks putting sensitive data at risk of being published - I decided to de-Facebook and de-Google my life. 43. OIP: The Protocol that’s Taking on the Google Search Index Monopoly Google’s closed search index makes their control indomitable in the space and shields them from scrutiny. OIP wants to change that. 44. Big Tech Regulation Bill Shut Down, But the Fight Still Looms This bill's chances of passing look stronger than its predecessors. But if the bill doesn’t pass, the industry may change on its own to address its own issues. 45. How To Manage Your Privacy Online Think carefully before publishing your personal data (especially name, address, telephone number) in a user profile. 46. Tech Giants Bet on Cost Cutting Initiatives, Emerging Tech for Thriving in a Challenging Economy In the face of a global economic slowdown, tech giants are betting on new and emerging technologies to maintain their dominance. 47. Putting the Blinders on AI Want to avoid an insurrection or genocide? Disconnect AI from centralized databases now! 48. Migrating Away from Big Tech: My Software Dev Approved Personal Preferences Recommendations to move off of big tech; these are some of the services and software I've shifted to listed some of the services I considered in the process. 49. Can Social Networks Become Decentralised? Twitter has recently hired Tess Renearsson – a famous blockchain engineer – to lead a new department at Twitter that will research decentralised technologies and look for ways how Twitter could implement them in its products and infrastructure. Twitter has responded to its users’ rising interest in decentralised technologies and will try to contribute to their development and to make them part of its user experience. 50. 5 Ways We Can Work to Close the Gender Gap in Tech It’s really not as hard as it sounds 51. Here Are The Goals  of Big Tech, NGOs, and Startups Every organization needs to set quality improvement goals to keep its competitive edge. 52. Our Politicians Don’t Understand Tech and it's Time to Put Them to the Test Mark Zuckerberg shouldn't have to explain the internet to Congress. It's high time we made tech literacy a requirement for running for office. 53. The Difference Between Privacy and Security For many, privacy and security seem to be words that are interchangeable. Yet, you can have one without the other and users need to be aware of what they get. 54. Privacy Challenges And Improper Use of User Profile Data Improper use of user-profiles data by third parties is probably the most serious potential risk with regard to personal data contained 55. Governments Pressuring Tech Giants Isn't Going to End Well (for Governments) The world has come a long way in terms of its relationship with technology and knowledge. It’s almost universal that people are often afraid of new inventions that are supposed to improve their lives. We feel threatened by what’s out of our intellectual grasp. 56. Could There Eventually Be a Ban on Behavioral Advertising? Could behavioral advertising be on its way out? 57. The Issue of Privacy on Social Networks Personal data becomes publicly accessible in ways and in quantities hitherto unknown; above all, this happens concerning an enormous quantity of images 58. Big Tech vs. Indian Authorities [An Overview] The world’s largest technology companies have all faced criticism over their global tax practices. Back home too, tech heavyweights are grappling with the Indian taxman. 59. What's The Blockchain Strategies of Tech Giants? The crypto ecosystem has come a long way from its humble beginnings in Bitcoin. One testament to the revolution that blockchain represents can be seen in the multitude of large, established companies that have adopted and adapted blockchain. 60. Here's How Google and Friends Are Contributing—How Can We All Help? A month ago it would’ve been hard to imagine how life would change in what seems overnight. Quarantines have been declared in many countries, and already around one billion people are staying at home, isolating themselves and some working remotely. The public activities have stopped, drug stores are in deficit of protection masks, and food shops are being cleaned of even primary products. 61. 10 Most Evolving Big Data Technologies to Catch Up on in 2022 At the heart of it all, big data also has a dark side. Several tech giants are facing heat from the public and government regarding the issue of data privacy. 62. Big Tech Highlights From Alphabet, Meta and Amazon Financials For 2021 In this research, we analyze the financials of the main big tech players for 2021. We draw some key conclusions based on the recent financial releases. 63. Introducing the "Future Web Standards", a new Covenant for  Developers This is part of the reason that I launched the Open Innovation License prior. However, I felt like the OIN isn't enough. I felt like more needed to be done for the open source community and even the outside world that wants to establish a certain standard. 64. Democratizing the New Data Economy in 2023: With Co-Founder of Seagate Technology, Finis Conner Big tech firms get their wealth & power from the data they freely collect from users. But new blockchain tech is about to destabilize the entire data landscape. 65. We Discovered Disparities in Internet Deals: Here's How We Did It Yet the high-speed internet options offered by an internet service provider can vary even by neighborhood within a city... 66. Taming Big Tech: The Case for Monitoring <em>How, working in the shadows of the internet, researchers developed a passive monitoring system that might soon make Big Tech companies accountable to the public — and even save democracy.</em> 67. This Week On Planet Internet, We're Breaking Up With Big Tech We are cracking down on Big Tech. 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Let's learn about via these 64 free stories. They are ordered by most time reading created on HackerNoon. Visit the to find the most read stories about any technology. Passwords /Learn Repo 1. How to Crack a Password Using Hashcat In this article, I discuss the best ways to crack passwords. 2. Exposing Secrets on GitHub: What to Do After Leaking Credentials and API Keys As a developer, if you have discovered that you have just exposed a sensitive file or secrets to a public git repository, there are some very important steps to follow. 3. How Password Managers Can Protect You From Phishing Password managers are a convenient way to use strong, unique passwords everywhere. Another good thing about password managers is that they help protect you from malicious websites that attempt to "phish" passwords. 4. PSA: LastPass Does Not Encrypt Everything In Your Vault As a software engineer and long time LastPass user, I’ve always been an advocate of password managers. With data breaches becoming more and more common these days, it’s critical that we take steps to protect ourselves online. However, over the past year LastPass has made some decisions that have made me question their motives and ultimately has recently caused them to lose my business. 5. Implementing 2FA: How Time-Based One-Time Password Actually Works [With Python Examples] If you care about your security on the web, you probably use a Two-Factor authentication (2FA) method to protect your accounts. There are various 2FA methods available out there, a combination of password + fingerprint, for example, is one of them. However, since not so many people have a fingerprint reader available all the time, one of the most popular 2FA methods today is to use an authenticator app on your cellphone to generate a temporary password that expires within a minute or even less. But, how does this temporary password, called Time-Based One-Time Password (TOTP) works, and how can I implement that on my own service? 6. Build your own User-friendly Cross-platform Password Manager I use a local password manager on my computer:  I just stick with a password, which is the only password I memorize. 7. How To Create Secure Registration Flow with PHP and Password Hashing Building a secure user registration form with PHP seems like a scary task. How do I protect myself from MySQL injection and other methods of hacking. Surprisingly, with only a few steps and precautions, you can greatly reduce the chance of success for attacks. 8. Why Your Browser's Built-In Password Manager Isn't Enough You may ask, "My web browser already has a built-in password manager, why do I need to install a new one?" There's actually a number of good reasons to install a password manager. 9. The Elimination of Cybersecurity's Status Quo – Passwords According to a report by the World Economic Forum, in the year 2020, cybercrime cost the world economy a staggering $2.9million every minute. According to another report, every single day, enterprises lose about 5 million records containing sensitive data due to vulnerability in their system or a human factor failure. 10. HMAC and MAC Explained: How To Build Secure Authentication With JWTs HMACs and MACs are authentication codes and are often the backbone of JWT authentication systems. Let's take a look at how they work! 11. Security.org Knows 15 Million Americans Will Be Buying Cryptocurrency in the Next Year Twelve years after the Bitcoin network came into existence in 2009, we asked nearly 1,300 U.S adults about their familiarity, ownership, and confidence in cryptocurrencies, from Dogecoin to Ethereum, and everything in between. One highlight?  Nearly 15 million Americans plan to purchase crypto for the first time in the next year. 12. Cryptography Trends and News for 2020 Quantum Computing 13. An Introduction to Key Derivation Functions: Argon2, Scrypt, and PBKDF2 A key derivation function, or KDF, derives one or many secret keys from a secret value. Therefore, If you've ever needed to store a password in a database or create a private key from a password, you may have used a KDF. 14. How Big Tech is Working Towards a Password-Free Future A 2019 research conducted by HYPR showed that 78% of people forgot their passwords and required a reset within the last 90 days. Passwords aren’t just difficult to manage, they are inconvenient, insecure, and expensive because passwords are just too easy to guess, hack or intercept and what’s more, the legacy of password reuse is leading to constant attack and account vulnerabilities. 15. Password Managers Should be A Mandatory Part of Everyone’s Digital Life Everyone knows it’s a good idea to use strong, unique passwords, and as employees around the world have been forced to work remotely, logging in from multiple devices and multiple locations, the need for strong password security has only grown. But last year’s Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) revealed that weak or compromised credentials still cause 80% of hacking-related breaches. Throughout the current pandemic, attackers have been scouring remote workforce applications to gather and sell user credentials on the dark web, even targeting healthcare organizations such as the National Institutes of Health and the World Health Organization. 16. How Machine Learning Prevents Identity Theft With the Big Data gathering precious information, and us leaving our digital footprints all over the internet, it appears that hackers have their hands full. Only in 2018, there were over 3 million identity theft cases in the US. In 25% of them, the amount of money was lost. 17. The Importance of Proper Password Security in 2022 A look at the importance of proper password security in 2022 18. How to Protect Folders And Files in Windows using Passwords Sometimes, we need to apply a bit of extra protection to the data on our computers. We might want to protect our tax records from prying eyes, or lock away business plans from our competitors. Or we might just want to ensure that any children with access to our device can't access inappropriate content. 19. 7 Ways How Hackers Crack Your Passwords DISCLAIMER: The article is intended to be used and must be used for informational purposes only. 20. Passwords Are a Weak Security Link and Stolen Credentials Is Big Business Stolen credentials are big business thanks to poor password management from users and even nefarious actors on the Dark Web creating demand for stolen passwords 21. Mechanism of Password Protection While there are security risks associated with the use of password protection, it is very important to know that there have been cases of stolen passwords. 22. Password Security in 2022 — A Complete Guide A comprehensive guide to password security for all IT managers (and everyone else!). Learn why it is important, the risks of insecure passwords and how you can 23. How Much Has Your Password Grown Up With You? If you are growing up with technology, your password should be grown up too. 24. From Passwords to Passwordless Authentication Passwordless authentication is gradually replacing the password-based authentication practice. The CIA triad of Cybersecurity is changing rapidly. Learn how. 25. Common Web Security Vulnerabilities In the movies, hacking is like fast keyboard typing and hitting the Enter but in the real world, hackers find and exploit vulnerabilities to hack websites. 26. Configure Your Linux With Passwordless Sudo For A Specific User Linux follows tough rules when it comes to permission. Being a root user or sudo user gives you permission to do almost anything which normal user don’t have. Several commands need sudo keyword to run and each time you try to run sudo, Linux asks for a password, today we will configure a passwordless sudo. 27. Saving Passwords with Relative Security [A Guide for Dummies] There is a mystical aura around password creation. Some kind of occult knowledge reached only by the distant cryptographic hermits who ascended to nirvana after decades of meditation on the Patagonian glaciers and liters of instant coffee. In this article, we will try to translate a few drops of this ancient wisdom so that we, mere mortals, have secure accounts to store pictures of cats and e-books that we will never read. 28. The Growing Cyber Risks of a Work From Home  Workforce A recent Threatpost poll found that 40 percent of the companies transitioning to WFH experienced a spike in cyberattacks. The survey concluded that patching and updating are among the top challenges for employees when securing their remote footprint. 29. How Password Issues Plague Help Desk Calls A article on passwords, password security, and how businesses can train employees to handle passwords themselves. 30. How to Go Passwordless with idemeum JavaScript SDK One SDK, 10 minutes of your time, and you can bootstrap passwordless auth for your single-page app. With one SDK, you get all the flows: one-click, WebAuthn, an 31. How Hackers Can Brute-Force Passwords And Find A Correct Key? Brute force attackers guess passwords, passphrases, and private keys in an attempt to eventually get the right answer and crack the security of a system, but how do they know when they have the right key? 32. 3 Ways to Crack WinRAR Password Protected Files This article will explain the 3 best methods to recover WinRAR password protected files. 33. GitHub Security: How To Protect Your Company From Credential Leakage Disclaimer: I am the CEO of GitGuardian, which offers solutions for detecting, alerting and remediating secrets leaked within GitHub, therefore this article may contain some biases. GitGuardian has been monitoring public GitHub for over 3 years which is why we are uniquely qualified to share our views on this important security issue. 34. How to Protect Your Instagram Account from Being Hacked An Overview 35. 63% of data breaches exploit weak credentials - Cybersecurity to support remote workers A look at how to update the old passwords model to support the future of distributed work. 36. Not All Password Managers Are Created Equal: Which is the Best? Web-based password managers have emerged as a response to the proliferation of web applications. 37. Death, Taxes, and Password Negligence: The Inevitability of Pwned Passwords The internet security slang pwned-- pronounced ‘poned’-- is mainly used to indicate administrative control over someone’s computer account or computer. A password that has been pwned is one that has been compromised in some kind of breach, and it means that it’s no longer safe to use. 38. Express.js Integration Guide for Passwordless Authentication with DID.app Just want the code? Find this example on github 39. What Could Have Prevented 2020's Massive Twitter Hack? Attacks and account take-overs like the recent Twitter hack are completely avoidable. Enterprises must implement biometric multi-factor authentication to ensure that only the right users have access to the right systems at all times. If they don’t, users will continue being vulnerable to hacks and scams. 40. How Passwords Get Hacked Fernando Corbato pioneered the first computer password in 1960, being used as a personal point of entry on MIT's Compatible Time-Sharing System (CTSS). Just 2 years later, the CTSS was hacked and has been inspiring hackers ever since. There have been immense technological advancements since 1962 - how is it that today's hackers can get through 2-step authentication, biometrics, and security questions? Cryptographers predict a future that moves beyond passwords, but the issue seems to lie between cybersecurity and human nature. 41. Three Things the Coronavirus Confirmed About Enterprise Security With virtually every non-essential business forced to rely on new technology and embrace different ways of working, the coronavirus pandemic has presented organizations with numerous obstacles. While much attention has been paid to how companies can best navigate these challenges, it’s important that we also recognize another truth emerging from our new normal: enterprise security still leaves much to be desired. 42. The Anatomy of A Strong Passphrase That Is Easy To Remember We all have hundreds of online accounts. Ideally, as many of those accounts as possible have unique passwords. Unique passwords however present a difficult problem: No one can remember hundreds of strong passwords. 43. MFA Vs. 2FA: Which Is Better And More Secure Your 8-character password with numbers, symbols, lowercase, uppercase, and special letters are not enough to shoo away hackers! What to do then? Find out here. 44. The Business Costs of Compromised Passwords Passwords and Their Ability to Bring Down Even the Largest of Enterprises 45. Great Methods To Create A Password File To Prevent Brute-Force Attacks Brute-forcing a really important method that a hacker or a pentester must be aware of and he will use in various places. 46. Authentication Vs. Authorization [Infographic] In online protection systems, authentication and authorization play an important role. They confirm the user's identity and grant your website or application access. In order to decide which combination of web tools best fits your security needs, it is important that you notice their differences. 47. A Guide to Password Hashing: How to Keep your Database Safe Hashing algorithms are one-way functions. They take any string and turn it into a fixed-length “fingerprint” that is unable to be reversed. This means that if your data in your database is compromised, the hacker cannot get the user’s passwords if they were hashed well because at no point were they ever stored on the drive without being in their hashed form. 48. Introduction to Cryptography: Vigenère Cipher [Part 2] Hi again and welcome back to part 2 of the basic cryptography. Previously we discuss about what is cryptography and how fundamental and ancient problem it is in communication science. We talk about ceaser's cipher and how easy it is to break. We also talk about Substitution Cipher which was slight improvement to Ceaser' cipher but can easily be cracked using Frequency analysis technique. 49. A Very Basic Intro to Hash Functions: SHA-256, MD-5, etc This is going to be a basic introduction to hash functions. I will assume most of my audience is here to gain an understanding of why hash functions are used and the basic idea of why they work. My goal is to explain it in a general sense, I will be omitting proofs and implementation details and instead focusing on the high-level principles. 50. Salts and Hashes For the time being, I want you p33ps to ignore the general meaning of these words used in daily context and give a new meaning to them for the current time being. 51. Data Breaches: Why You Should Never Share Your Passwords Data Breaches: Why You Should Never Share Your Passwords 52. Do Passwordless Technologies Have an Impact on Cybersecurity? Contrary to popular belief, traditional passwords are not the best way to protect sensitive information on our digital devices. 53. How to Find Your Saved WiFi Password on iPhone and iPad Learn how to quickly find saved WiFi passwords on your iPhone. Our simple guide helps you retrieve forgotten passwords in just a few steps. 54. Protecting Your Data Online Using Strong Passwords and Two-Factor Authentication: A Guide There's a growing need for better online security, with strong passwords and two-factor authentication. As more of our daily life moves online, more of our personal information is also being stored on the web, along with access details for our personal bank accounts and confidential work data. With cyberattacks on the rise, all of this information needs to be protected from unauthorized access by hackers. 55. The Only 15 Apps I Downloaded and Keep on My MacBook 👨‍💻 Today we'll be looking at my personal top 15 Mac apps. I'm actually quite a minimalist in installing and keeping apps, so these 15 are the only "extra" apps I'm using on my device. 56. The Future of Authentication Strong authentication's war is fought not in the trenches of password management along with more complex passwords, passphrases, or even better multifactor authentication. Instead, this war must start with
fundamental authentication processes as none of the current options will become a long-lasting silver bullet. 57. Web Auth Standard: Guide to Web Authentication API Secure context
This feature is available only in secure contexts (HTTPS), in some or all supporting browsers. 58. BIP 32 Watch-Only Wallets Bitcoin improvement proposal 32 is, in my opinion, one of the most important BIPs we have. (Thanks Peter Wuille!) BIP 32 gave us Hierarchical Deterministic Wallets. That is, the ability to create a tree of keys from a single seed. 59. What devs need to know about Encoding / Encryption / Hashing / Salting / Stretching This is a typical exchange about encryption with someone willing to learn. 60. Passwords Suck: Here Are 4 Ways We Can Fix Them Passwords are a critical part of cybersecurity that individuals and businesses use every day. 61. Things You Must Know About git-crypt To Successfully Protect Your Secret Data Many software projects use secrets - usually, keys to external APIs or credentials to access an external resource such as a database. Your application needs these keys at runtime, so you need to be able to provide them when you deploy your application, or as a step in preparing your deployment environment. 62. 5 Cybersecurity Mistakes You Probably Make Every Day (and How to Fix Them) A look at common cybersecurity mistakes that you are likely doing every day, and what you can to prevent them. 63. Public Key Cryptography: RSA keys I bet you created at least once an RSA key pair, usually because you needed to connect to GitHub and you wanted to avoid typing your password every time. You diligently followed the documentation on how to create SSH keys and after a couple of minutes your setup was complete. 64. 7 Ways to Protect Your Company from Insecure Credentials Verizon’s 2020 DBIR reports that more than 80% of hacking-related breaches involve brute force or the use of lost or stolen credentials— here’s how to prevent weak or compromised credentials from being used in your company’s applications and network Thank you for checking out the 64 most read stories about Passwords on HackerNoon. to find the most read stories about any technology. Visit the /Learn Repo

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Blockchain is a robust and secure technology that every business wants to embrace in 2022. It provides benefits like decentralization, cryptographic security, immutability, and tokenization. states that companies like BurstIQ, Filament (IoT), and HYPR (IoT) widely use blockchain solutions like smart contracts and decentralization. Built In The banking sector requires security in financial operations that blockchain technology has proven to provide effectively. Traditional businesses can also use blockchain technology to assure data integrity and top-tier security measures. Blockchain is a distributed ledger technology in the financial industry that simplifies regular and business payments, and fraud prevention, and removes third parties from transactions. Blockchain integration into financial operations gives companies a futuristic advantage over the competition. Fintech And according to , the value of global blockchain technology may reach $39 billion by 2025. Statista Let’s delve a little deeper into the concept of blockchain technology. What is Blockchain Blockchain is a decentralized digital ledger that utilizes a single-source-of-truth concept to store, encrypt, and connect data blocks. It improves security and creates a digital ledger for every transaction. Blockchain technology plays a significant role in cryptocurrency operations. It supports cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Tether. Blockchain’s Contribution to the FinTech Industry 1. Secure Payments Organizational and digital consumer security is a global concern. Several thefts and breaches have made stakeholders appreciate the value of secure payment methods and transactions. Blockchain has a solution for such intricate problems. The blockchain contains infinite numbers of immutable blocks generated using safe and secure protocols. They prevent unauthorized changes from disrupting the whole chain. Blockchain technology can completely transform the payment industry by securing its many weak points. It has procedures that demonstrate transparency and increase the overall efficiency of financial transactions. Blockchain helps regular people and businesses manage their money in a secure and convenient manner. Its decentralized operations also remove the need for third parties in transactions. Third-party transactions are often prone to fraud. 2. Trade Finance Blockchain is essential in the financial operations connected to domestic and international trade. It can liberate traders from time-consuming inspections. And it offers simplified cross-border trade, transparent pricing, and quick payment processing. Companies can use blockchain technology to improve transaction accuracy, speed up the settlement process, and eliminate risks. There is a lot of paperwork and complexity in the trade financing arena. Purchases of stock and shares must go through brokers, exchanges, clearing, and settlement. Blockchain role in the stock lifecycle: Cut out multiple intermediaries to make the process easier. Protect the stock exchange network by keeping immutable data records. Close stock cycle loopholes by making the process entirely transparent. 3. Bank Avoidance Banks and financial institutions often impose inconvenient restrictions in the financial sector. It can make things difficult for both regular people and businesses. Blockchain helps people manage their money and transactions without the intervention of a bank or a regulator. It also simplifies digital transactions for the owners of cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum. 4. Smart Contracts Smart Contracts are contracts secured with code that runs only when the user/consumer meets its agreed-upon criteria. It adds integrity to the network chain with the auto-implementation capability. The loan department is an easy-to-understand use case for smart contracts. Assume a customer takes a loan from a financial company. The firm can create a smart contract with predetermined interest rates, terms, and conditions. The smart contract will automatically activate if the consumer fails to meet these predetermined requirements. Smart contracts lead to accuracy of the information, better security, and clear communication in all financial operations. 5. Digital Identity Verification Blockchain provides a digital verification system. It helps users select how they identify themselves and reveal their identity only to trusted individuals. Clients that utilize this method need to go through validation once. And they may use this confirmed identification document to make transactions anywhere in the world. Users can securely transmit payments or data using their private keys once completing the registration procedure. End-users may control their digital identities using Blockchain. It removes the risks associated with transferring money to the wrong individual. End-users will never have to worry about who is on the other end of the line. Clients can use a blockchain to: Manage their personal identity information and reputation. Share their info with others without fear of risking their safety. Log in to digital services that do not require passwords. Sign documents like claims and transactions digitally. 6. Cyber Fraud Prevention Financial markets are particularly prone to fraud. It is due to the usage of a centralized database that modifies the whole database. Internet banking frauds, computer manipulation, and Mobile banking frauds are some well-known financial frauds. Blockchain can provide a reliable solution to such problems. Blockchain’s transaction records are not prone to alterations and have end-to-end encryptions. It prevents fraud and suspicious activity in all financial operations. It stores the decentralized financial data in blocks. And each block has a cryptographic hash function that secures the data. 7. Peer-to-Peer Transfers Individual customers, startups, and small businesses pay substantial transactional fees for every international transaction. Customers also send money from their bank or credit card through the internet with P2P transfers. There are several P2P transfer programs in the market. Some P2P systems demand high charges and are not secure enough to protect personal data. The Blockchain can reduce such expenses during cross-border transactions. It exists everywhere and has no geographical boundaries. And that’s how it can make P2P transfers inexpensive for many users. Conclusion The arrival of blockchain technology will propel the FinTech sector to unprecedented heights. Fraud prevention, exclusion of third parties from transactions, and top-of-the-line security are the primary benefits of blockchain technology. It creates a digital ledger that contains accurate data about all your transaction. Such accuracy proves highly beneficial in the banking and accounting industry. Time-stamped digital ledgers also protect you from legal problems caused by inaccurate or altered financial data. Blockchain technology can produce a society in which individuals can manage their money successfully without the need for intermediaries. It can bring a new era of financial responsibility, accountability, and transparency.

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Are you frustrated with running the same scripts again & again before resuming your work? Here is a simple solution to change that. We often develop complex applications which require a certain amount of basic setup to begin development on every occasion. For instance, I recently started working on a react-native project where I had to develop a mobile application with a backend on Express.js and MongoDB. I generally use iTerm 2 on my M1 MacBook as my go-to application for terminal usage. In every instance whenever I wished to resume my work on a daily basis, I had to perform a few routine tasks to set up my development environment as follows: #Terminal1
cd <BackendProjectFolder>
npm run start
#Then open the MongoDB Compass Application
#Terminal2
cd <ApplicationProjectFolder>
npm run android
#Then open the VSCode and navigate to project folder After doing all these routine tasks every time I will be good to start my development. It might look small but there are developers who develop lots more things that require a large basic set-up to start their development. Hence I decided to develop a script that would automate the above process for me! I have developed an AppleScript that would run the necessary commands on multiple tabs as needed to set up my environment as needed to start my development in no time. Bash Script #!/bin/bash
osascript -e 'tell application "iTerm2"
    set newWindow to (create window with default profile)
    tell current session of newWindow
        write text "cd /Users/akellaniranjan/Desktop/Hypr-API-1
                    npm run start"
    end tell
tell current window
    create tab with default profile
    tell current session
        write text "open $MONGODB_COMPASS
                    open $VSCODE"
    end tell
    end tell
tell current window
    create tab with default profile
    tell current session
        write text "cd /Users/akellaniranjan/Desktop/Hypr-Mobile_App
                    npm run android"
    end tell
    end tell
end tell' Apple Script tell application "iTerm"
set newWindow to (create window with default profile)
tell current session of newWindow
write text "cd /Users/akellaniranjan/Desktop/<BackendProjectFolder>
            npm run start"
end tell
tell current window
create tab with default profile
tell current session
write text "open $MONGODB_COMPASS
            open $VSCODE"
end tell
end tell
tell current window
create tab with default profile
tell current session
write text "cd /Users/akellaniranjan/Desktop/<FrontendProjectFolder>
            npm run android"
end tell
end tell
end tell Script Explanation Initially, the script commands the system to open the iTerm application and then to create a new tab with the default profile. Then it runs the commands to navigate to the backend project folder to run the project. Further, it creates an additional tab in the same window to run the $MONGODB_COMPASS & $VSCODE for which I have preset the variable as environment variables in the ~/.zshrc file as #Add these two lines below the PATH variable at the beginning
export MONGODB_COMPASS=/Applications/MongoDB\ Compass.app
export VSCODE=/Applications/Visual\ Studio\ Code\ -\ Insiders.app By running these commands the script automatically opens both the applications and since I have previous quite/closed my VSCode session with my project folders open it would open them in the same state. Then finally, the script would create another tab in the same window and execute the commands to navigate into my frontend folder and build my android app which would in turn trigger to open up the android emulator device. 🌟🌟🌟 Now to spice things up a bit!! I added further functionality to run the above-developed script just using a keyboard shortcut from any application. This simplifies my workflow tremendously by reducing the time needed for me to set up the boring stuff through automation. : Note Below instructions are given as of 25th April 2022, MacOSX. It may/may not vary, please kindly do refer to other sources for slight modifications. Step — 1: Script Creation & Service Setup Open the Automator application from Spotlight and choose ‘Quick Action’ from the menu. Search for ‘AppleScript’ on the top search bar. You will find a ‘Run AppleScript’ option that will show up in the menu below. Double click on it. This will open up a short window on the main menu where you will need to set ‘Workflow Receives’ input as ‘no input’ to make sure that the script runs without any inputs. Then as ‘Any Application’, to allow any application to run the script. in Further in the ‘Run AppleScript’ menu, past the above mentioned Apple Script (Note: Modify the script as you desire it to perform) and click on the build icon. Which will open up another menu to choose the application to run. Please select ‘iTerm’ from the given list of applications. Then click on the ⏯ button to run the script and check if it runs as desired if not modify the script. Save the file with a proper name without spaces in the name from File->Save. Step — 2: Setting up Apple Keyboard Shortcut Go to System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Shortcuts. Select Services from the left sidebar. Find the service that you have just saved in the previous step from the list on the right-hand side. Then hover on the short cut and you will be displayed with an option to add a shortcut on the rightmost end. Now navigate to and select ‘Accessibility’ from the left sidebar. System Preferences -> Security & Privacy -> Privacy Unlock the padlock and click on the ‘+’ sign to add applications. Add Automator. and Finder (you can find the finder application at ‘ Please navigate to this location) to be accessible by the system. /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app’, Now you can close the System Preferences. THAT’s IT!!! 👍 you have successfully set up your shortcut. If you found this article helpful please do share it with your peer developers to ease their workflows and embrace knowledge. — Niranjan Akella This article was first published here.

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