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A Safer Way to Validate Social Publishing Automation

Reliable social publishing automation is not just about making the final click happen. If you only measure whether a post was sent, you can miss the failures that matter most: the wrong account, the…

  • Treat social publishing automation as a series of checks, not a single action.
  • Validate environment, perform irreversible action once, verify result outside editor.
  • Divide flow into preparation, submission, and verification stages for safer automation.

They Uploaded a File and It Was Not an Image

Somebody uploaded a profile picture. It was not a picture. The endpoint checked the extension. The file was called avatar.png, and an extension is not a fact.

  • Profile picture uploaded with .png extension, but not an actual image file
  • Filename placed in web server directory, accessible to others using same domain
  • SVG and PDF files can contain executable scripts, posing security risks

NCA awards 5G spectrum to Telecel Ghana

The National Communications Authority (NCA) has awarded three spectrum lots in the 2.3 GHz band to Telecel Ghana to support the company’s rollout of 5G services and expansion of mobile broadband…

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