Collaborate Disseminate
When criminal hackers keep breaking into big company networks to grab consumer data, the reason comes down to dollars and nonsense. Continue reading Massive Data Leaks Keep Happening Because Big Companies Can Afford to Lose Your Data
Security conscious users keep their operating system and other software up to date, but a huge risk is often overlooked: the underground trade of malicious browser extensions that people install themselves. Continue reading The Hack Millions of People Are Installing Themselves
What do Heartbleed, WannaCry, and million dollar iPhone bugs have in common? Continue reading The Internet Has a Huge C/C++ Problem and Developers Don’t Want to Deal With It
While on the run from the feds, Kevin Mitnick stole the source code of the Motorola MicroTAC Ultralite, the most advanced cellphone at the time, with a few phone calls. Continue reading How Kevin Mitnick Stole the Source Code for the Best Cell Phone of 1992
From Bangkok to New York, fraudsters have an established, underground market of selling dirt cheap rooms at 5 star hotels as well as international flights. Continue reading How Hackers Sell Luxury Hotel Rooms for Next to Nothing
Antivirus has been around for more than 20 years. Do you still need it to protect yourself today? Continue reading Why Is Antivirus Software Still a Thing?
Technology is getting more adept at tracking our moves and anticipating our choices, and being watched all the time can make us feel anxious. Continue reading What Constant Surveillance Does to Your Brain
The impulse behind our willingness to share our Netflix or HBO Go passwords with other people could be hardwired. Continue reading Is It Safe to Share a Netflix or HBO Go Account?
Doxing rivals, stealing each other’s files, and poking around Nintendo’s servers are all a normal part of the ballooning Nintendo Switch hacking and piracy scenes. Continue reading Inside the Messy, Dark Side of Nintendo Switch Piracy
We’re living in the golden age of spyware and government hacking, with companies rushing to join a blossoming billion dollar market. The weakest among us—activists or journalists—will suffer the consequences if we don’t regulate it appropriately. Continue reading It’s Amateur Hour in the World of Spyware and Victims Will Pay the Price