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A blue coin-operated seafront viewer on a concrete plinth, pointed out across flat grey water under a heavy overcast sky, with a low treeline on the far shore.

Cybersecurity 6 min

What Your Own Domain Tells a Stranger

OSINT needs no budget and no access. We ran it against our own domain and found 26 robots.txt rules naming /admin/ and /...

Kenji Tanaka

Pub. 19 Aug

A large rusted iron padlock hanging from the hasp of a heavy studded wooden door. Its shackle is swung open and unlatched, so the lock is in place but fastening nothing.

Cybersecurity 6 min

Many Security Policies Permit the Attacks They Are Meant to Block

Eighteen ASEAN banks, government portals and telcos send a mean of 3.7 of 5 browser-protection headers, which is better...

Kenji Tanaka

Pub. 19 Aug

A dense curtain of fibre-optic strands lit from within against a dark background.

Cybersecurity 6 min

The Post-Quantum Migration Already Started, and Nobody Told You

Quantum computing and encryption is usually framed as a countdown. For the connections you actually use, the migration h...

Cyber Team

Pub. 12 Aug

A traveller sitting at an airport gate with a laptop, an aircraft visible through the window behind.

Cybersecurity 8 min

Public Wi-Fi: The Warning Is Out of Date, the Exposure Is Not

All eight sites we checked end on HTTPS and all eight set HSTS, so nobody on the café network can read what you send — i...

Cyber Team

Pub. 11 Aug

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Cybersecurity 6 min

Is This Email Really From Them? The Check You Cannot See

The sender name is free text and the address can be forged. The real check happens in DNS before the message reaches you...

Cyber Team

Pub. 11 Aug

A rusted brass padlock hanging on a weathered green painted door.

Cybersecurity 7 min

What Does the Padlock Actually Prove? We Read Six Real Certificates

It certifies that the connection is encrypted and that the name in the address bar matches the certificate. It says noth...

Cyber Team

Pub. 11 Aug

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Cybersecurity 9 min

Account Security You Can Finish in an Afternoon

Four jobs, ordered by how much loss each one prevents, with the arguments settled by the standard rather than by folklor...

Cyber Team

Pub. 1 Aug

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Cybersecurity 12 min

Who Sees Your DNS? DoH, DoT and What Encrypted DNS Actually Hides (2026)

DoT, DoH and DoQ encrypt your DNS queries, but destination IPs, the TLS SNI and your resolver still see plenty. What the...

Cyber Team

Pub. 22 Jul

A team reviewing a vendor policy — vetting an AI tool before company data goes in

Cybersecurity 10 min

How to Check if an AI Tool Is Safe for Company Data (2026)

Consumer AI tiers train on your data; business tiers don't. A 10-minute vetting workflow for SMEs, with ASEAN PDPA ancho...

Priya Nair

Pub. 15 Jul