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Cybersecurity Style Guide helps you write like a hacker

The Parallax

Unpickling, BeEF hooking, hamburger button, and sticky cookies may sound like the latest items on a hipster hangout menu to join $12 avocado toast , but they’re actually all terms that appear in the first major style guide edited by linguists for hackers. Related: cybersecurity. We prefer the term information security.

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Increased scrutiny forces tech to clean up its language

The Parallax

Hackers generally love to embrace change, from executing new exploits to reconsidering past paradigms. But like most of the technology world, the cybersecurity companies that use it have been slow to abandon exclusionary language that has returned to the spotlight, thanks to the Black Lives Matter protests.

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Increased scrutiny forces tech to clean up its language

The Parallax

Hackers generally love to embrace change, from executing new exploits to reconsidering past paradigms. But like most of the technology world, the cybersecurity companies that use it have been slow to abandon exclusionary language that has returned to the spotlight, thanks to the Black Lives Matter protests.

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Chernobyl’s lessons for critical-infrastructure cybersecurity

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Heavy regulations in the nuclear-power industry extending to cybersecurity protocol make nuclear-power facilities more secure than other types of power facilities, cybersecurity experts say. There were at least two other cybersecurity incidents at U.S. There were at least two other cybersecurity incidents at U.S.