Published inCodeX·PinnedChia — The Green BitcoinIn 2009 Satoshi Nakamoto’s dream started, Bitcoin and a decentralized currency was born. By 2018, Bitcoin skyrocketed to USD 20,000, after a brief correction we have seen the price of bitcoin rise recently to over USD 60,000. Through the bitcoin journey, countless people have had to deal with FOMO (Fear…Cryptocurrency5 min readCryptocurrency5 min read
Published inCodeX·Feb 3, 2021MFA: Your best defence against HackersSecure your data with MFA the correct way — Multi-factor Authentication has been around for some years now and it is something that people, included myself don’t always move towards. We can see it as a hindrance to quick logins. …Security4 min readSecurity4 min read
Published inCodeX·Feb 1, 2021Top 5 Ways to secure yourself onlineThe world is changing rapidly, and our personal privacy online is disappearing fast. Every app and website these days seem to want something from us. As the saying goes ‘if you aren’t paying with money, you are paying with something’. Companies are scraping every bit of data they can from…Security4 min readSecurity4 min read
Published inCodeX·Jan 31, 2021The Balance of Security Ethics and ProductivityCreating a security-centric culture in the workplace — Ethics within the workplace is a sliding slope. It is something that can quickly fail is it is not correctly monitored and guided. Traditionally Ethics within a business is black and white, here are the things you can do and here are the things to avoid. However, this approach has…Security4 min readSecurity4 min read
Published inCodeX·Jan 29, 2021Build an Attacker MindsetGain control of your security — When thinking about cybersecurity, personal or professional, it can get complicated fast. Terms can become confusing and next minute you are reading about data mining, wormholes, trojans, encryption standards, RSA, SSH, DOH, AES, DES, LMNOP, QRSTUV, WXY+Z. …Security5 min readSecurity5 min read
Published inCodeX·Jan 28, 2021Oblivious DNS Boosting privacy and aligning with CIAThe future of private DNS is here! — Changing your DNS provider is a great easy step to upgrading your privacy and security settings on the internet. Since the beginning of the internet, DNS has been the biggest weakness in our network security. DNS has always been communicated through plain test, which means that anyone watching the network…Privacy4 min readPrivacy4 min read
Published inThe Startup·Jan 27, 2021Data Privacy Is a Human RightTechnology has the potential to suck the privacy right out from under us without us even knowing. Technology and services have been designed in a way that we do not even know what data companies have on us, unless we go digging, which we never will. …Human Rights4 min readHuman Rights4 min read
Published inCodeX·Jan 26, 2021The problem with VPN marketingYou will be hacked if you don’t have a VPN This is something that I have wanted to talk about for a while now. It’s what I would consider the dangerous VPN culture. I have nothing against VPNs, or most of the providers out there. I believe that VPNs are a great tool to use for privacy and security, in…VPN4 min readVPN4 min read
