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Category: Cyberspace

2026.10.09 ID: 768

A Title Is Just a Label

There is a Persian proverb that fits here perfectly: “Every walnut is round, but not every round thing is a walnut.” «هر گردویی گرد است، اما هر گردی گردو نیست» Two things can look the same from the outside and be completely different inside. Job titles work exactly like that. Someone’s title does not define […]

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2026.07.24 ID: 698

The Sandbox Didn’t Break Itself

People are losing their minds over this story about an AI model breaking out of a sandbox. The headlines make it sound like a sci-fi movie…Take that recent news about OpenAI. The reports claim an unreleased model broke out of its secure sandbox and started digging around on Hugging Face just to steal test answers. […]

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2023.10.24 ID: 505
Who is truly the biggest spammer: the bad actors or those who don’t appear to be bad actors?

The Irony of Security Companies Flooding Inboxes with Spam

It is not a secret that many companies use the phrase “email marketing” to describe their spamming behavior. Real email marketing is about sending useful, relevant messages to people who want to hear from you. But standard email marketing is not the point of this article.What I have noticed over time is something far more […]

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2023.02.10 ID: 746

The Bitterness of Social Media

Is social media really a platform to deliver your message to your audience? I hope the answer is yes. That is what we have been told. You create an account, build an audience, post your thoughts, and the platform helps your message reach the people who are interested in it. The reality is different! Social […]

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2022.12.24 ID: 652

The Panacea Illusion

The new obsession This feels like the beginning of a new religion. ChatGPT arrives, and suddenly everyone believes they’ve found the cure for everything. Every question, every confusion, every gap in understanding, now delegated to a chatbot. The same pattern repeats: a new tool, a new promise, a new exhaustion. People forget that every tool […]

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2022.02.08 ID: 654

The Simplicity Behind Real Security

The Industry Loves Complexity Cyber security has a strange habit. Every year, more layers. More dashboards. More integrations. More moving parts…and somehow, more insecurity. Decades of experience showed me something simple: Complex solutions either fail, or create new attack surface while pretending to reduce it. That is the irony of modern security. We secure complexity […]

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2021.09.04 ID: 470

utilizing dark web as defense

I was shocked when I heard from a “security professional” that using dark web as means understanding cyber threats has been Just Recently been discovered by them as an effective defense mechanism! no kidding! then why we are surprised we get hacked by the most trivial TTP out there? this is very disappointing that “security […]

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2021.08.14 ID: 474

cybersecurity and culture

different cultures have different perception and reaction to cybersecurity matters because cyberspace is as diverse as real life and it consists of and affected by all cultures involved. cultures are not significantly different in terms of understanding and identification of behaviors of their members. for example being lazy may have slightly same definition in multiple […]

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2021.06.23 ID: 447

Virtual NATO

It is very late for international community to act on fighting against Ransomware and Cyber-crime in general but still anything better than nothing. EU and US coordination on fighting ransomware reminds me of NATO foundation back in 1949. perhaps countries could have considered cyber crime a “global issue” sooner and act faster against organized international […]

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2020.11.03 ID: 439

human firewall

no doubt that users are the main problem in the whole concept of cyber defense, as we call it weakest link. Now, Awareness and Training as security community typically has been doing is neither effective nor actually deliverable. Imagine we would want to continue law enforcement and public awareness by means of “Most Wanted” posted […]

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