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Daniel Roth
Daniel Roth covers cryptocurrency and the cryptography behind provably-fair systems, explaining how commitment schemes and verification actually work rather than how they are marketed.
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1Password vs LastPass: $36/yr, 0 Breaches [2026]
Two password managers dominate the “which should I trust” conversation in 2026, and they sit at opposite ends of the trust spectrum.…
CVE-2026-41940: cPanel Auth Bypass Hits 1.5M Servers, CVSS 9.8 [2026]
A critical authentication bypass vulnerability in cPanel and Web Host Manager (WHM), tracked as CVE-2026-41940, exposed roughly 1.5 million internet-facing servers to…
TLS 1.3 in Node.js: 12 Steps to Secure HTTPS in 30 Min [2026]
Every HTTPS connection your Node.js server makes starts with a TLS handshake. That handshake negotiates which cipher to use, verifies the server…
CSRF Protection in Node.js: 12 Steps [2026]
Cross-Site Request Forgery tricks a logged-in user’s browser into firing a state-changing request the user never intended. The browser attaches the victim’s…
WireGuard vs OpenVPN: 3-4x Faster [2026]
Pick a VPN in 2026 and you will face one fork in the road before anything else: WireGuard vs OpenVPN. One is…
Drift Protocol Hack: $285M Gone in 12 Minutes [2026]
On April 1, 2026, attackers drained roughly $285 million from Drift Protocol, Solana’s largest decentralized derivatives platform, in a coordinated window that…
