SolarWinds is a software company whose products are used by organisations to monitor and manage IT infrastructure. One of its key products the Orion platform (which was named the SolarWinds Platform in 2022), provided organisations with tools for monitoring networked systems and infrastructure. The importance of Orion made it an attractive target for attackers. The …
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Imagine waking up one holiday morning in the peak of winter with freezing air inside the bedroom which turns your breath into tiny white clouds. Shivering, your turn the thermostat dial but realize the heat isn’t turning on, your radiators stay dead cold as ice and outside, the temperature is above the roof, plunging past …
Fig 1. Image from TechNewsWorld In August 2026, Carhartt suffered a massive data breach of what was initially thought to be 24.9 million unique email addresses, addresses, names, phone numbers and physical addresses. ShinyHunters, a hacking group who claimed responsibility for the attack, demanded a payment of roughly $3.3 million USD in return for not …
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Source: 2026 Canvas Breach In May 2026, the University of Alberta found itself caught in a global cybersecurity incident involving Instructure, the company behind the widely used Canvas Learning Management System (LMS). While the breach impacted approximately 9,000 institutions and 275 million people globally, it hit particularly close to home for students and faculty right …
In modern applications, authentication tokens are digital keys that prove who you are so you don’t have to log in over and over again. They’re the reason you can stay signed into an app without re-entering your username and password every few minutes, and the reason you can move between your email, cloud storage, streaming …
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Everyone enjoys the idea of a vacation trip. Imagine the excitement you feel when pack your bags, make sure your documents are ready (Boarding passes and Passport). You head down to the airport, bags all checked in, waiting to board. Suddenly, there’s a lot of chatter going on in the airport amidst the airline staff …
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By Pranshu Amin If you are like me and spend a good chunk of time online you must have come across some headlines claiming Google’s passwords were leaked in June 2025 [1] (Cybernews, 2025), sparking concerns for millions of users. But what does this really mean? Was google really hacked or is there more to …
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ISEC 601 – FINAL GROUP TEACHING AID List of Group Members: Pranshu Amin – 30302031; Hillary Ogoke – 30141713; Joy Aroh – 30302221; Israel Oni – 30085933; Mohammed Arab – 30129092 Introduction to E-Voting For centuries, democratic elections have relied on paper ballots as the foundation of trust. Paper voting is simple, auditable, and familiar. …
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Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) isn’t just England’s largest carmaker, it’s an icon. From luxury SUVs to rugged Defenders, its vehicles are part of a global story. Behind that story is a workforce of approximately 33,000 people (an additional 100,000 jobs across its supply chain), a far-flung supply chain, and a digital nervous system that ties …
GitHub link to the website code: https://github.com/Benedict-Kpaduwa/PBKDF2-Project/ Storing and transmitting information securely, as well as ensuring its integrity, authenticity, and confidentiality are some of the most important problems faced within a field of cryptography. There are all kinds of encrypting, hashing and signing algorithms, all relying on some secret password. One of the biggest problems …
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