Originally published at ewright3.com In January 2024, the SEC's official X account was hijacked. Attackers posted a fake Bitcoin ETF approval announcement, briefly moving markets. The Securities and Exchange Commission, the agency that writes the rules on public company cybersecurity disclosures, couldn't protect its own phone number. The compromise mechanism was a SIM swap. No sophisticated explo
You have probably seen a file named “go.sum” in almost every Go project you have worked on. You may have even seen it change every time you run “go mod tidy”. But do you actually know what it does? It is one of those files that works silently in the background, and some developers never stop to think about it. The “go.sum” file is one of those files you never really interact with directly, but it