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The 30-Minute Job Interview That Steals Your Entire Hard Drive
If you're looking for freelance development work on Reddit, LinkedIn, Upwork, or similar platforms, be careful. Scammers are increasingly disguising malware as coding assessments and technical interviews. What appears to be a simple GitHub repository for a 30-minute coding test may actually be an attempt to get you to execute malicious code on your own machine.
The setup looks completely legitimate. A recruiter or startup founder reaches out with what appears to be a freelance opportunity. The interview
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Posted in Technology in the News
Tagged coding, developer, downloads, freelancer, GitHub, linkedin, malicious code, malware, phishing, plugins, reddit, reputation, sandbox, scammer, tech interviews, third-party code, third-party plugins, trust, upwork, virtual machines, vm
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Is Domain Front-Running Real? And Which Companies Might Be Doing It?
If you’ve ever searched for a domain name, only to return a few hours or days later and find it mysteriously registered by someone else, you’re not alone. This frustrating phenomenon has led many to ask: Is domain front-running real? And are some registrars secretly registering domains based on our searches?
Let’s break it down.
The Truth About Domain Front-Running
Domain front-running is the practice of a registrar using search data to register or "reserve" domains that people are
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Posted in Ask David!, Domain Names
Tagged automated bots, bots, buy domain name, check domain name, check domain name availability, domain availability, domain backorder, domain front-running, domain monitoring, domain name, domain watchers, godaddy, icann, icann accreditation, industry practices, namecheap, reputation, user experience
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