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Security Briefing

Security Briefing is where our full articles live. Each one takes a single risk, like a phishing lure, a weak login or a website that asks for too much, and works it through the same way: what happened, who it affects, what to check and what to do now.

Briefings are written by Alex Mercer, the pen name our content team publishes under. We write for people who don’t do security for a living: a bookkeeper in Conway, a parent in Leeds, the office manager at a three-person law practice. We separate what’s confirmed from what’s speculation, we don’t name suspects without evidence, and we never publish anything that helps someone break into a system. If a briefing needs correcting, we correct it on the page and say so.

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