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Month: August 2025

Google Just Sent a Rare Security Warning — Here’s Why It Matters

Posted on August 31, 2025September 11, 2025 By UPL Admin

If you use Gmail (and let’s be real, who doesn’t?), you may have seen headlines about Google urging its 2.5 billion users to update their passwords. That’s not a typo. Two and a half billion. The story was first covered by Cyber Security News, and it’s worth paying attention to….

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When Leadership Blocks the Conversation

Posted on August 30, 2025August 30, 2025 By UPL Admin

Leadership isn’t about titles. It isn’t about seniority. And it certainly isn’t about being the loudest voice in the room. Leadership is about listening—seeking out perspectives from all levels, weighing them with humility, and using that knowledge to guide decisions. But too often, organizations face a frustrating reality: the higher…

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Employee Distraction: The Hidden Security Threat No One Talks About

Posted on August 28, 2025August 28, 2025 By UPL Admin

When people picture a cyberattack, they often imagine some hoodie-wearing hacker hammering out lines of code to bypass firewalls. The truth is usually far less dramatic. Most breaches don’t come from sophisticated malware at all—they come from us. Distraction, fatigue, rushing to meet deadlines—these human factors now account for more…

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DigiByte: The Most Secure Blockchain No One Talks About

Posted on August 19, 2025August 19, 2025 By UPL Admin

While the crypto space gets distracted by meme coins, rug pulls, and whatever the Ethereum Foundation is debating this week, DigiByte keeps quietly doing what it’s done since 2014—securing its network with layered defenses that most projects only dream about. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: if…

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So… About That 15.8 Million PayPal Credential Dump

Posted on August 19, 2025August 19, 2025 By UPL Admin

If you woke up this week and saw headlines about 15.8 million PayPal logins being dumped on the dark web, you might be wondering: “Did PayPal get hacked again?” The short answer? Not exactly. But the long answer is still worth your attention. Here’s what went down: A hacker going…

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The Mechanic’s Car Is Always Broken

Posted on August 4, 2025August 4, 2025 By UPL Admin

I was sitting with a good friend the other day, having one of those conversations that meanders through life, work, and all the messy pieces in between. At some point, he asked about the latest crypto theft—if I’d heard anything new from the forensics team. I sighed. “No. And honestly,…

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