Quickly Gauge Your Serverless Security Readiness With This Short Quiz

The cloud-security world entered a new age with the introduction of serverless computing. While developers quickly embrace serverless to rapidly build and deploy cloud applications, security and risk management leaders are lagging b… Continue reading Quickly Gauge Your Serverless Security Readiness With This Short Quiz

Another company’s been harvesting Facebook user data

Like Cambridge Analytica, Cubeyou also gobbled users’ data with personality quizzes, under the guise of “research.” Continue reading Another company’s been harvesting Facebook user data

What Facebook’s Cambridge Analytica problem means for your data

Facebook is in the spotlight, as the recent Cambridge Analytica story involving millions of users’ data continues to melt news servers around the world. We strip away the complications and tell you exactly what happened, and why you may want to re… Continue reading What Facebook’s Cambridge Analytica problem means for your data

“Celebrating Stephen Hawking” with a 419 scam

Scammers are using the good name of the recently deceased scientist Stephen Hawking to lure potential victims into a 419 scam, complete with a quiz and large cash prize for the winner.
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Think You Know C? Find Out

I’ve had the fortune or misfortune of interviewing a lot of job candidates over the years. It amazes me how often someone will claim to know something, sound reasonable, but then if you quiz them on it, it becomes really obvious that they don’t know much. To flush this out, we had a three-question test that would tell you a lot. People who got the right answer were ahead of the game, of course, but even looking at how people approached the answer (right or wrong) would tell you a lot, too.

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