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Marcus Bell
Marcus Bell covers applied security: authentication, TLS, phishing, and the everyday decisions that keep accounts and data safe. He focuses on turning advice people usually ignore into steps they will actually follow.
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Articles by Marcus Bell
Switch 2 Hits 19.86M, Outsells PS5 in Year One [2026]
One year after it reached store shelves, the Nintendo Switch 2 has become the defining hardware story of this console generation. Nintendo’s…
Carnival Corporation Breach: ShinyHunters Expose 6M Passports [2026]
Carnival Corporation, the world’s largest cruise operator, confirmed in late May 2026 that a social engineering attack exposed the personal records of…
SQL Injection Prevention in Node.js: 12 Steps [2026]
SQL injection remains the most reliably exploited web vulnerability in 2026. According to the Verizon 2025 Data Breach Investigations Report, injection attacks…
FBI DCSNet Hack: Salt Typhoon Exposes Wiretap Data on 80 Nations
On the night of February 17, 2026, FBI analysts noticed something wrong with the logs on one of the bureau’s most sensitive…
Ransomware Groups Up 49%: 8,159 Victims Hit in 2025 [2026]
The ransomware ecosystem did not shrink in 2025. It exploded. IBM’s X-Force Threat Intelligence Index 2026, published February 25, found 109 distinct…
HMAC-SHA256 in Node.js: 10 Steps, 20 Min [2026]
Every webhook your server receives is an unauthenticated HTTP request until you prove otherwise. A payment confirmation from Stripe, a push event…
Tailscale vs WireGuard: Free vs $8/User [2026]
Ask any self-hosting enthusiast or platform engineer how they connect their machines in 2026, and two names dominate the conversation: Tailscale and…
Proton Mail vs Gmail: 1GB vs 15GB Free [2026]
Email is the single account that unlocks every other account. Reset your bank, your crypto exchange, your work login, and the verification…
AI Cyberattacks: 90% Autonomous, 40K Flaws [2026]
The cyberattack that defined the start of 2026 was not run by a human. In November 2025, Anthropic disclosed that a China-linked…
Agentic AI Security: $4.7M Breaches, 92% Alarmed [2026]
Agentic AI security moved from a niche research worry to the dominant enterprise risk of 2026 in less than a year. In…
