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In most of my favorite video games I find that the famous “less is more” adage typically applies… I appreciate when a game sticks to what it does best and avoids the temptation to artificially pad the length of the game with broken mini-games or pointless fluff. While side quests that add to the lore of the world are fun, excessive filler content or meaningless “follow this guy” missions only water down an otherwise excellent gaming experience… and may even dilute the story so much that a fantastic game is completely unenjoyable.
In our real world we often find “less is more” as well… each and every word we speak or write carries resonance far beyond what we may have intended, and even a well-meaning point of view can be diminished by the unintended context of the words that surround it. The words we speak are powerful, and when we exhibit self-control over our written and spoken words we can deliver a message from the Lord with His love, grace, and clarity. If we struggle with “opening our mouth and inserting our feet”, remember that short and sweet ensures His words are heard clear and complete.
In the multitude of words sin is not lacking, but he who restrains his lips is wise. Proverbs 10:19
But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy. Now the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace. James 3:17-18
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Stop me if you have heard this one before… you see a trailer or watch a publicity appearance for an upcoming movie that you are excited about, and in the course of about sixty seconds the entire plot of the movie and half of the cool surprises the movie contained are completely spoiled for you. “Teaser” trailers have become less of a taste of what a film has in store for us and more of a full meal, giving away their secrets like a classic movie villain who falls prey to their need to explain their entire evil plot to the one person in a position to stop them. We leave the experience feeling like we have a pretty good idea of who will win, who will lose, who will show up, and even what the “second act plot twist” will be. While I am no stranger to the importance of advertising and marketing products to support the largest possible audience for a movie, television show, video game, book, or any other form of consumable entertainment, I think we can all safely say that much of the mystery that exists in these media formats has moved from simply attracting fans with a slice of what they have in store for us to giving away the entire story.
But before I am too hasty in judging these companies, marketers, and publicists for doing their job, I have to reconcile another reality that I have found present in my own life more than I care to admit… I too have fallen pray to some “monologues” myself that have exposed some of the things to the wrong audience that should have been kept between me and the Lord. And if I give you a few examples, maybe you will find some of these in common as well. Have you ever caught yourself saying the words, “You know what I’m afraid of” to someone? Or perhaps share some personal information followed by sharing the knowledge that “if this happened, it would completely destroy me?” or “the only thing that will stop me from doing this is…”? While we might think we are simply having a conversation with a friend or a loved one about a personal concern or struggle we are dealing with, there is a sinister presence eavesdropping on these weaknesses we are exposing… and we just gave them the key to defeating us.
The tendency to give our enemy the most direct path to taking us out is certainly nothing new… over the years many of us have taken a turn at becoming the architects of our own demise, giving away our deepest fears and sharing our weaknesses with perhaps positive intentions but disastrous results. In my own life, I have made the mistake of giving my enemy the exact information that would destroy a relationship or pull me away from serving the Lord many times by speaking those words to a friend or trusted confidante… only to be faced with that exact combination of scenarios and attacks at a later time. And as I find myself reeling from what has occurred, I find myself feeling much like Job did when after he experienced an enemy attack like no other and he said, “The thing I greatly feared has come upon me, and what I dreaded has happened to me”. In a moment of “sharing”, I exposed my deepest fears and vulnerabilities to more than simply my target audience… I gave my enemy the most direct path to shattering my world without even making them work for it.
Job 3:25 For the thing I greatly feared has come upon me, and what I dreaded has happened to me.
One of the saddest stories in all of Scripture is the fall of Samson, a man of exceptional physical power but very limited spiritual restraint. The climax of his story comes as we find him in the hands of Delilah… someone he had placed his trust in who was working for the other side. After years of waging war with the Philistines and being used by God to deliver his people, in a moment of weakness and frustration Samson exposed his only weakness to her… and within hours he found that his confidence had been misplaced. His head was shaved, his power removed, and the man who had withstood hundreds of soldiers single-handedly in combat was now over-powered in a living room… all because he gave away the plot to his story to an audience that couldn’t be trusted with it.
Judges 16:15-20 Then she said to him, “How can you say, ‘I love you,’ when your heart is not with me? You have mocked me these three times, and have not told me where your great strength lies.” And it came to pass, when she pestered him daily with her words and pressed him, so that his soul was vexed to death, that he told her all his heart, and said to her, “No razor has ever come upon my head, for I have been a Nazirite to God from my mother’s womb. If I am shaven, then my strength will leave me, and I shall become weak, and be like any other man.” When Delilah saw that he had told her all his heart, she sent and called for the lords of the Philistines, saying, “Come up once more, for he has told me all his heart.” So the lords of the Philistines came up to her and brought the money in their hand. Then she lulled him to sleep on her knees, and called for a man and had him shave off the seven locks of his head. Then she began to torment him, and his strength left him. And she said, “The Philistines are upon you, Samson!” So he awoke from his sleep, and said, “I will go out as before, at other times, and shake myself free!” But he did not know that the Lord had departed from him.
The Scriptures are clear that we have an active enemy in life (1 Peter 5:8) who seeks nothing more than to steal, kill and destroy (John 10:10), but while the enemy of our soul is incredibly intelligent, they can’t read our minds. Our deepest concerns and fears are things that should be brought to the Lord in prayerful surrender so He can guide us through them (2 Corinthians 10:4-5), and when we open that door through casual conversation with others we are handing that key off to the very presence that has been trying to figure out the best way to break in, destroy us, and shipwreck our faith from day one.
1 Peter 5:8 Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.
Proverbs 10:19 In the multitude of words sin is not lacking, but he who restrains his lips is wise.
Proverbs 21:23 Whoever guards his mouth and tongue keeps his soul from troubles.
I wish I could take back the things I have said and shared that exposed my deepest fears and created the opportunity for them to be used against me, but unfortunately that isn’t possible. But in the stories of both Job and Samson we find that even after the enemy’s most brutal attacks, the faithfulness of the Lord was present to provide both restoration of their mission in the case of Samson (Judges 16:28-30) as well as what was lost in the case of Job (Job 42:12-13). And if we will yield our fears, concerns, and broken places to the Lord He will be faithful to not only restore them, but to rebuke the enemy and run them out of the space that we inadvertently gave them access to in the first place. Our words are more powerful than we realize, and they can and WILL be used against us by the enemy who is bent on destroying us. Let’s not make his job any easier by giving him the combination to the safe… let’s guard our words and give every concerning or fearful thought to the Lord in prayer… He is the only one who can help us overcome them.
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Drinking-water systems pose increasingly attractive targets as malicious hacker activity is on the rise globally, according to new warnings from security agencies around the world. According to experts, basic countermeasures—including changing default passwords and using multifactor authentication—can still provide substantial defense. However, in the United States alone, more than 50,000 community water systems also represent a landscape of potential vulnerabilities that have provided a hacker’s playground in recent months.
Last November, for instance, hackers linked to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard broke into a water system in the western Pennsylvania town of Aliquippa. In January, infiltrators linked to a Russian hacktivist group penetrated the water system of a Texas town near the New Mexico border. In neither case did the attacks cause any substantial damage to the systems.
Yet the larger threat is still very real, according to officials. “When we think about cybersecurity and cyberthreats in the water sector, this is not a hypothetical,” a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency spokesperson said at a press briefing last year. “This is happening right now.” Then, to add to the mix, last month at a public forum in Nashville, FBI director Christopher Wray noted that China’s shadowy Volt Typhoon network (also known as “Vanguard Panda”) had broken into “critical telecommunications, energy, water, and other infrastructure sectors.”
“These attacks were not extremely sophisticated.” —Katherine DiEmidio Ledesma, Dragos
A 2021 review of cybervulnerabilities in water systems, published in the journal Water, highlights the converging factors of increasingly AI-enhanced and Internet-connected tools running more and bigger drinking-water and wastewater systems.
“These recent cyberattacks in Pennsylvania and Texas highlight the growing frequency of cyberthreats to water systems,” says study author Nilufer Tuptuk, a lecturer in security and crime science at University College London. “Over the years, this sense of urgency has increased, due to the introduction of new technologies such as IoT systems and expanded connectivity. These advancements bring their own set of vulnerabilities, and water systems are prime targets for skilled actors, including nation-states.”
According to Katherine DiEmidio Ledesma, head of public policy and government affairs at Washington, D.C.–based cybersecurity firm Dragos, both attacks bored into holes that should have been plugged in the first place. “I think the interesting point, and the first thing to consider here, is that these attacks were not extremely sophisticated,” she says. “They exploited things like default passwords and things like that to gain access.”
Peter Hazell is the cyberphysical security manager at Yorkshire Water in Bradford, England—and a coauthor of the Water 2021 cybervulnerability review in water systems. He says the United States’ power grid is relatively well-resourced and hardened against cyberattack, at least when compared to American water systems.
“The structure of the water industry in the United States differs significantly from that of Europe and the United Kingdom, and is often criticized for insufficient investment in basic maintenance, let alone cybersecurity,” Hazell says. “In contrast, the U.S. power sector, following some notable blackouts, has recognized its critical importance...and established [the North American Electric Reliability Corporation] in response. There is no equivalent initiative for safeguarding the water sector in the United States, mainly due to its fragmented nature—typically operated as multiple municipal concerns rather than the large interconnected regional model found elsewhere.”
DiEmidio Ledesma says the problem of abundance is not the United States’ alone, however. “There are so many water utilities across the globe that it’s just a numbers game, I think,” she says. “With the digitalization comes increased risk from adversaries who may be looking to target the water sector through cyber means, because a water facility in Virginia may look very similar now to a water utility in California, to a water utility in Europe, to a water utility in Asia. So because they’re using the same components, they can be targeted through the same means.
“And so we do continue to see utilities in critical infrastructure and water facilities targeted by adversaries,” she adds. “Or at least we continue to hear from governments from the United States, from other governments, that they are being targeted.”
Last month, Arkansas congressman Rick Crawford and California congressman John Duarte introduced the Water Risk and Resilience Organization (WRRO) Establishment Act to found a U.S. federal agency to monitor and guard against the above risks. According to Kevin Morley, manager of federal relations at the Washington, D.C.–based American Water Works Association, it’s a welcome sign of what could be some imminent relief, if the bill can make it into law.
“We developed a white paper recommending this type of approach in 2021,” Morley says. “I have testified to that effect several times, given our recognition that some level of standardization is necessary to provide a common understanding of expectations.”
“I think the best phrase to sum it up is ‘target rich, resource poor.’” —Katherine DiEmidio Ledesma, Dragos
Hazell, of Yorkshire Water, notes that even if the bill does become law, it may not be all its supporters might want. “While the development of the act is encouraging, it feels a little late and limited,” he says. By contrast, Hazell points to the United Kingdom and the European Union’s Network and Information Security Directives in 2016 and 2023, which coordinate cyberdefenses across a range of a member country’s critical infrastructure. The patchwork quilt approach that the United States appears to be going for, he notes, could still leave substantial holes.
“I think the best phrase to sum it up is ‘target rich, resource poor,’” says DiEmidio Ledesma, about the cybersecurity challenges municipal water systems pose today. “It’s a very distributed network of critical infrastructure. [There are] many, many small community water facilities, and [they're] very vital to communities throughout the United States and internationally.”
In response to the emerging threats, Anne Neuberger, U.S. deputy national security advisor for cyber and emerging technologies, issued a public call in March for U.S. states to report on their plans for securing the cyberdefenses of their water and wastewater systems by May 20. When contacted by IEEE Spectrum about the results and responses from Neuberger’s summons, a U.S. State Department spokesperson declined to comment.
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Everyone with a Roku TV or streaming device will eventually be forced to enable two-factor authentication after the company disclosed two separate incidents in which roughly 600,000 customers had their accounts accessed through credential stuffing.
Credential stuffing is an attack in which usernames and passwords exposed in one leak are tried out against other accounts, typically using automated scripts. When people reuse usernames and passwords across services or make small, easily intuited changes between them, actors can gain access to accounts with even more identifying information and access.
In the case of the Roku attacks, that meant access to stored payment methods, which could then be used to buy streaming subscriptions and Roku hardware. Roku wrote on its blog, and in a mandated data breach report, that purchases occurred in "less than 400 cases" and that full credit card numbers and other "sensitive information" was not revealed.
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Attackers have transformed hundreds of hacked sites running WordPress software into command-and-control servers that force visitors’ browsers to perform password-cracking attacks.
A web search for the JavaScript that performs the attack showed it was hosted on 708 sites at the time this post went live on Ars, up from 500 two days ago. Denis Sinegubko, the researcher who spotted the campaign, said at the time that he had seen thousands of visitor computers running the script, which caused them to reach out to thousands of domains in an attempt to guess the passwords of usernames with accounts on them.
“This is how thousands of visitors across hundreds of infected websites unknowingly and simultaneously try to bruteforce thousands of other third-party WordPress sites,” Sinegubko wrote. “And since the requests come from the browsers of real visitors, you can imagine this is a challenge to filter and block such requests.”
Knotwords is an exciting word game that combines puzzle elements with more traditional word-guessing puzzles used in games such as Wordle. It features a free Daily Classic mode that gives all players a challenging daily puzzle to solve for free. This guide explains the answer to today’s puzzle and outlines where each word fits within it so you don’t waste any time on hints.
See below for the complete solution to the Knotwords Daily Classic Puzzle for March 8, 2024. This one was long, but we got to the solution nonetheless. See below for a list of every word used in the puzzle, starting with those running left to right, then those running top to bottom.
See below for the complete solution to the Knotwords Daily Classic Puzzle for March 7, 2024. This one was long, but we got to the solution nonetheless. See below for a list of every word used in the puzzle, starting with those running left to right, then those running top to bottom.
See above for the complete solution to the Knotwords Daily Classic Puzzle for February 29, 2024. This one was long, but we enjoyed it nonetheless. See below for a list of every word used in the puzzle, starting with those running left to right, then those running top to bottom.
See above for the complete solution to the Knotwords Daily Classic Puzzle for February 28, 2024. This one was pretty easy to do, even for a Wednesday. See below for a list of every word used in the puzzle, starting with those running left to right, then those running top to bottom.
See above for the complete solution to the Knotwords Daily Classic Puzzle for February 27, 2024. This one was pretty easy for a Tuesday so we were happy with it. See below for a list of every word used, starting with those running left to right, then those running top to bottom.
See above for the complete solution to the Knotwords Daily Classic Puzzle for February 24, 2024. This one is long but very possible without hints. See below for a list of all the words used, starting with those running left to right, then those running top to bottom.
See above for the complete solution to the Knotwords Daily Classic Puzzle for February 22, 2024. This one was quite the challenge, but we still got through it. See below for a list of every word used, starting with those running left to right, then those running top to bottom.
See above for the complete solution to the Knotwords Daily Classic Puzzle for February 21, 2024. This one was nice and simple to get through without any real bother. See below for a list of every word used, starting with those running left to right, then those running top to bottom.
See above for the complete solution to the Knotwords Daily Classic Puzzle for February 20, 2024. This one was nice and easy today. See below for a list of every word used, starting with those running left to right, then those running top to bottom.
See above for the complete solution to the Knotwords Daily Classic Puzzle for February 19, 2024. This one was nice and easy to get through for a Monday. See below for a list of every word used, starting with those running left to right, then those running top to bottom.
See above for the complete solution to the Knotwords Daily Classic Puzzle for February 18, 2024. This one was pretty long, but also very easy to get through with hints. See below for a list of every word used, starting with those running left to right, then those running top to bottom.
See above for the complete solution to the Knotwords Daily Classic Puzzle for February 17, 2024. This one was really long but completely possible for those using hints. See below for a list of every word used, starting with those running left to right, then those running top to bottom.
See above for the complete solution to the Knotwords Daily Classic Puzzle for February 16, 2024. This one was quite a long challenge but very rewarding to get through. See below for a list of every word used, starting with those running left to right, then those running top to bottom.
Knotwords is similar to a crossword puzzle. While the layout is the same, the board is split up into sections of multiple squares, but they’re not lined up and down or right to left. Instead, they’re all kinds of shapes, and you’re given a set of letters that fits somewhere within those shapes. The letters you’re given rarely make sense, so you need to look at all the letters on the board and figure out where it makes sense to place them. If you get a line wrong, it will be highlighted pink to indicate that you need to change the placement of at least one letter. When you get a word correct, it will shimmer in a brief animation before allowing you to continue with the rest of the game.
The puzzle title Knotwords is a word game that combines rules and concepts from many puzzles, including Sudoku and Wordle. It contains a few different puzzles for players to dig into, some of which are free, with others requiring a monthly subscription. In addition to the Knotwords Daily Classic Puzzle, you can attempt a new Knotwords Mini Daily Puzzle. This guide covers the answers you need for the Mini Daily Puzzle to prevent you from getting too stuck.
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Below we’ve listed every answer for the Mini Daily Puzzle for the past week. This was the first free puzzle in the game in this category, meaning that not every puzzle will be accessible if you don’t have a Knotwords subscription. We’ve got you covered for those occasions that it is freely accessible, though.
See above for the complete solution to the Knotwords Mini Daily Puzzle for March 8, 2024. This one was not very challenging. See below for a list of every word used in the puzzle, starting with those running left to right, then those running top to bottom.
See above for the complete solution to the Knotwords Mini Daily Puzzle for March 7, 2024. This one was not very challenging. See below for a list of every word used in the puzzle, starting with those running left to right, then those running top to bottom.
See above for the complete solution to the Knotwords Mini Daily Puzzle for February 29, 2024. This one was nice and easy to get through, just how we like it. See below for a list of every word used in the puzzle, starting with those running left to right, then those running top to bottom.
See above for the complete solution to the Knotwords Mini Daily Puzzle for February 28, 2024. This one was nice and easy to get through for us and we really enjoyed that. See below for a list of every word used in the puzzle, starting with those running left to right, then those running top to bottom.
See above for the complete solution to the Knotwords Mini Daily Puzzle for February 27, 2024. This one was nice and easy to work through on a Tuesday. See below for a list of every word used, starting with those running left to right, then those running top to bottom.
See above for the complete solution to the Knotwords Mini Daily for February 24, 2024. This one was super easy. See below for a list of all the words used, starting with those running left to right, then those running top to bottom.
See above for the complete solution to the Knotwords Mini Daily Puzzle for February 22, 2024. This one was super easy. See below for a list of every word used in the puzzle, starting with those running left to right, then those running top to bottom.
See above for the complete solution to the Knotwords mini Daily Puzzle for February 21, 2024. This one was really easy to work through. See below for a list of every word used, starting with those running left to right, then those running top to bottom.
See above for the complete solution to the Knotwords Mini Daily Puzzle for February 20, 2024. This one was nice and easy to get through today. See below for a list of every word used, starting with those running left to right, then those running top to bottom.
See above for the complete solution to the Knotwords Mini Daily Puzzle for February 19, 2024. This one was pretty easy to get through, just how we like it. See below for a list of every word used, starting with those running left to right, then those running top to bottom.
See above for the complete solution to the Knotwords Mini Daily Puzzle for February 18, 2024. This one was really simple to bash out in the evening. See below for a list of every word used, starting with those running left to right, then those running top to bottom.
See above for the complete solution to the Knotwords Mini Daily Puzzle for February 17, 2024. This one was pretty easy to get through. See below for a list of every word used, starting with those running left to right, then those running top to bottom.
See above for the complete solution to the Knotwords Mini Daily Puzzle for February 16, 2024. This one was incredibly easy to work through. See below for a list of every word used, starting with those running left to right, then those running top to bottom.
See above for the complete solution to the Knotwords Mini Daily Puzzle for February 15, 2024. This one was really easy to work out and we loved going through it. See below for a list of every word used in the puzzle, starting with those running left to right, then those running top to bottom.
See above for the complete solution to the Knotwords Mini Daily Puzzle for February 14, 2024. This one was nice and simple and we really enjoyed it. See below for a list of every word used in the puzzle, starting with those running left to right, then those running top to bottom.
See above for the complete solution to the Knotwords Mini Daily Puzzle for February 13, 2024. This one was nice and simple and we loved it. See below for a list of every word used, starting with those running left to right, then those running top to bottom.
See above for the complete solution to the Knotwords Daily classic Puzzle for February 12, 2024. This one was nice and easy with a cup of coffee. See below for a list of every word used, starting with those running left to right, then those running top to bottom.
See above for the complete solution to the Knotwords Mini Daily Puzzle for February 11, 2024. This one was pretty simple and we loved going through it with a coffee. See below for a list of every word used in the puzzle, starting with those running left to right, then those running top to bottom.
The future of the internet is passkeys, but passwords will still be around for a while. While Google has been pushing for passkey adoption, it hasn’t forgotten about passwords just yet. Google has been spotted working on a password-sharing feature for Android, making sharing your passwords with your family easier.
The latest Google Play Services v24.09.12 (190400-610662703) includes a password-sharing functionality, which TheSpAndroid has managed to activate the feature with a feature flag to give us an idea of what it looks like.
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