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Fahmida Y. Rashid

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Fahmida brings over a decade of IT security news reporting along with ten years of network administration and software development to Decipher. Every security story has a human face, and her goal is to bring those stories to light. As the senior managing editor of Decipher, she will focus on ways security can impact how people live, work, and play. She enjoys working on stories that speak to those outside the security industry, highlighting the intersection of security and other technology areas. Over the years, she has seen enough to make her overzealous about her personal threat-model, but she doesn’t hold it against anyone for having a more relaxed worldview.

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352 articles by Fahmida Y. Rashid

Chrome’s Anti-Abuse Feature Blocks Ads on Dodgy Sites

Chrome 71 extends the ad-blocking technology introduced last year to block advertisements on sites with "harmful experiences" on the web.

Chrome Security, Malware

Critical Kubernetes Bug Gives Anyone Full Admin Privileges

With a 9.8 rating on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System, the privilege escalation flaw in container orchestration system Kubernetes is as bad as it can get. Any user will be able to remotely gain full administrator privileges on any node in the cluster.

Vulnerability, Open Source, Patching

Mastercard, Microsoft Team Up on New Digital Identity Platform

Microsoft and Mastercard plan to work together to develop a new platform for verifying identities online that can be used across multiple services and for different purposes.

Identity, Passwords

U.S. Dismantles Massive 3ve Click-Fraud Operation

It's a good day when law enforcement, working with industry partners like Google, Symantec and White Ops dismantle a massive operation designed to steal advertising revenue.

Internet, Fraud

Making the Case for a Botnet-Free Internet

Imagine the internet with no botnets. That's the ambitious vision, with more regulations holding more organizations accountable for botnet activities on their networks, as laid out in a Council on Foreign Relations paper.

Botnet, Internet