Doing business online has become simpler with the development of the Internet and mobile technologies. In general, both freelancers and clients benefit from the freelancing platforms. Freelancers have benefited from the freedom to choose their own hours and maintain creative control, the capacity to serve various clients. The clients can scale the work from project to project, develop round-the-clock contact, and hire freelancers at a reasonable price.

This story starts when Sébastien Lorber, maintainer of Docusaurus, the React-based open-source documentation project, notices a Pull Request change to the package manifest. Here’s the change proposed to the popular cliui npm package: Specifically, drawing our attention to the npm dependencies change that use an unfamiliar syntax: Most developers would expect to see a semver version range in the value of a package or perhaps a Git or file-based URL.

Some of the biggest and most successful businesses around the globe adopt a security-first strategy right from day one to ensure sustainability in growth. Regarding scalability, faster time to market, or competitive advantages, security must sit right at the top of business strategy. Security ensures that regular business operations and innovations remain uninterrupted pre or post-production.

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In a significant blow to its reputation and data security practices, Meta has been fined €91 million ($101.56 million) by the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) for a major security lapse dating back to March 2019. The investigation revealed that millions of Facebook and Instagram users' passwords were stored in plaintext, an alarming oversight for a company of Meta's scale and influence.

Vulnerability management is often a complex task, particularly when using multiple scanning tools or dealing with the constant flow of new CVEs. Different scanners can uncover the same vulnerability but provide different insights or look at different metadata, making it look like one vulnerability is several without the proper context. We are excited to introduce the Nucleus CVEs Page, designed to enhance how your organization manages vulnerabilities across projects.

Let’s catch up on the more interesting vulnerability disclosures and cyber security news gathered from articles across the web this week. This is what we have been reading about on our coffee break! Ouch! Now this is an incredible revelation and I ‘doff my hat to them: Using the word ‘hallucinations’ is so funny, yeah, I’ve seen some really weird things AI comes up with that I question what has the machine been taking.

According to CIS, just in the first half of 2024, malware-based threats rose by 30% from 2023. A similar 30% year-over-year increase was also found in cyber attacks in 2024 in a report by Check Point Research. With such alarming statistics, it is evident that the need for threat monitoring has become more critical than ever before. In this blog post, we'll explore what threat monitoring entails, why it's essential, and how you can implement best practices to safeguard your business.

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