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Monday, September 7, 2026

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Malik Johnson

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Malik Johnson covers Cybersecurity News, Privacy and Finance News.

Articles by Malik Johnson

Closed rack-mount network appliance with a single status light

Cybersecurity News

Palo Alto fixes PAN-OS flaw rated 10/10, confirms attackers hit unpatched firewalls within hours

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How to turn on two-factor authentication for the accounts that matter most

How to turn on two-factor authentication for the accounts that matter most

Malik Johnson

How to delete your data from 500+ data brokers with California's free DROP tool

How to delete your data from 500+ data brokers with California's free DROP tool

Malik Johnson

What is an MFA fatigue attack, and how do you stop it

Cybersecurity News

What is an MFA fatigue attack, and how do you stop it

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Bar chart of ransomware attacks by sector with manufacturing leading

Cybersecurity News

Fairlife dairy ransomware: Coca-Cola unit halts production after attack

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Chart comparing encryption defaults across five messaging apps

Private messaging apps compared: Signal, WhatsApp, iMessage, Telegram, and Threema

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Small restaurant owner checking a card terminal after downtime

Cybersecurity News

Payments platform BridgePay confirms ransomware attack and June ransom deadline

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Runner checking a fitness tracking app on a park path

Health app privacy: why your fitness tracker isn't covered by HIPAA

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Insurance regulator's empty meeting room with laptops

Cybersecurity News

NAIC discloses breach of its PeopleSoft systems, six days after discovery

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Cookies and trackers explained: what actually follows you around the web

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School IT administrator reviewing a federal alert at a district office

Cybersecurity News

Canvas breach turns to extortion: Education Department alert follows ransom deadline

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How to audit your app permissions in one sitting

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University students checking laptops during a campus outage

Cybersecurity News

Canvas LMS breach: ShinyHunters claims records from thousands of schools

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Diagram of voice recordings flowing between speaker, cloud, and review

Smart speaker privacy: the settings worth changing today

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System administrator applying urgent patches across server racks

Cybersecurity News

Microsoft's April 2026 Patch Tuesday fixes 163 bugs, including two exploited zero-days

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Email aliasing explained: give every service its own address

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Security analyst reviewing a vulnerability feed on dual monitors

Cybersecurity News

CISA adds five actively exploited vulnerabilities to its KEV catalog in March

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Commuter checking location permission popup on a phone at a bus stop

How to stop apps from tracking your location on iPhone and Android

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Network operations engineers reviewing a rack of SD-WAN appliances

Cybersecurity News

CISA orders federal agencies to patch Cisco SD-WAN flaws after active exploitation

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Traveler working on a laptop in a busy airport terminal

What a VPN actually protects — and the five things it doesn't

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Bar chart of Oracle quarterly security fix counts trending upward

Cybersecurity News

Oracle's January 2026 patch batch fixes 158 CVEs, with dozens remotely exploitable without credentials

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Browser fingerprinting explained: how sites recognize you without cookies

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IT administrator approving updates across office computers

Cybersecurity News

Microsoft's January 2026 Patch Tuesday lands; New York cyber officials urge immediate updates

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Woman crossing addresses off a printed directory at her kitchen table

How to remove your profile from people-search sites, one broker at a time

Malik Johnson