Profile of Seth Rosenblatt

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Seth is editor-in-chief and founder of The Parallax, an online cybersecurity and privacy news magazine. He has worked in online journalism since 1999, including eight years at CNET News, where he led coverage of security, privacy, and Google. Based in San Francisco, he also writes about connected technology and pop culture.

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US Capitol Attack a Wake-up Call for the Integration of Physical & IT Security

1/11/2021
How two traditionally disparate security disciplines can be united.
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How the Shady Zero-Day Sales Game Is Evolving

1/7/2021
Zero-day vulns are cold, while access-as-a-service is hot. Here's how black market (and gray market) deals go down.
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Bug Bounty Hunters' Pro Tips on Chasing Vulns & Money

11/5/2020
From meditation to the right mindset, seasoned vulnerability researchers give their advice on how to maximize bug bounty profits and avoid burnout.
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California's Prop. 24 Splits Privacy Advocates

11/2/2020
Critics worry that the curatives in Prop. 24 are worse than the disease of privacy-rights violations.
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Tracking Down the Web Trackers

10/28/2020
Third-party Web trackers might be following your website visitors' every step. How can new tools like Blacklight help you stop them in their tracks?
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CFAA 101: A Computer Fraud & Abuse Act Primer for InfoSec Pros

10/1/2020
From WarGames, to Aaron Swartz, to bug bounties, to Van Buren, here's what cybersecurity researchers should know about the US's primary anti-hacking law before it gets its day in the Supreme Court.
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h2c Smuggling: A New 'Devastating' Kind of HTTP Request

9/16/2020
The newly discovered form of HTTP request smuggling could have widespread impact because any proxy can be affected, researchers say. Here's what infosec pros should know.
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Ad Fraud: The Multibillion-Dollar Cybercrime CISOs Might Overlook

9/4/2020
Marketing officers may have accepted ad fraud as a cost of doing business, but infosec pros take heed -- fraud can be a step to more significant attacks. Here's what to know and how to take action.
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Strategic Cyber Warfare Heats Up

9/4/2020
It's "anything goes," according to renowned hacker the Grugq, who drew a bright line between cyberwar and cyber warfare at this week's virtual Disclosure Conference.
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Lock-Pickers Face an Uncertain Future Online

8/10/2020
Teaching the hardware hacker the skill of picking locks is evolving because of the pandemic's lockdown.
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Block/Allow: The Changing Face of Hacker Linguistics

7/27/2020
Terms such as "whitelist," "blacklist," "master," and "slave" are being scrutinized again and by a wider range of tech companies than ever before.
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The State of Hacktivism in 2020

7/21/2020
Activism via hacking might not be as noisy as it once was, but it hasn't been silenced yet.
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Making Sense of EARN IT & LAED Bills' Implications for Crypto

7/2/2020
After Senate Judiciary Committee pushes EARN IT Act a step closer to ratification, raising further concerns for privacy advocates, here's what to know.
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No Internet Access? Amid Protests, Here's How to Tell Whether the Government Is Behind it

6/24/2020
Government-mandated Internet shutdowns occur far more regularly than you might expect.
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What's Anonymous Up to Now?

6/17/2020
The hacker group recently took credit for two high-profile incidents -- but its actions aren't quite the same as they once were, some say.
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Data Loss Spikes Under COVID-19 Lockdowns

5/28/2020
Two new reports suggest a massive gap between how organizations have prepared their cybersecurity defenses and the reality of their efficacy.
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GDPR Enforcement Loosens Amid Pandemic

5/27/2020
The European Union has given some organizations more breathing room to remedy violations, yet no one should think regulators are planning to abandon the privacy legislation in the face of COVID-19.
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Facebook Fails to Staunch Coronavirus Misinformation

5/14/2020
The social media giant in April affixed warning labels on 50 million pieces of content
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Secure Contact Tracing Needs More Transparent Development

5/12/2020
Experts worry that without proper planning, today's decisions about developing contact-tracing apps could have unforeseen consequences in the years to come.
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Phishers Start to Exploit Oil Industry Amid COVID-19 Woes

4/29/2020
While a massive flood of attacks has yet to materialize, cybersecurity experts say this could be the calm before the storm.
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