Collaborate Disseminate
Slashdot reader carlk22 writes: In February 2001, Slashdot readers asked Carl Kadie about censorship and privacy at colleges, and he answered. Now Kadie, who founded the Computers and Academic Freedom project at EFF in 1991, has written its history. In… Continue reading Campus Censorship Wars, 25 Years After a Slashdot Q&A
Feds claim he charged clients more than ransoms, paid up, pocketed the difference Continue reading Ransomware fixer claimed he could decrypt files, allegedly defrauded clients instead
As the legacy AM broadcast bands fade away, what happens to the millions of devices built to receive them? Many of them will go into e-waste, but with a century …read more Continue reading Keep That Old Radio Alive With An ESP32
(c) SANS Internet Storm Center. https://isc.sans.edu Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License. Continue reading ISC Stormcast For Thursday, October 8th, 2026 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/10128, (Thu, Oct 8th)
Here’s another case where the folks who were supposed to be the good guys helping you may be harming you. Zohar Pinhasi, 50, also known as “Zack Silver” and “Zack Green,” a U.S. and Israeli national, was arraigned today in the Eastern District of… Continue reading Known Cybersecurity Expert and Owner of Florida Ransomware Remediation Company Charged with Defrauding Clients
Microsoft’s Twitter account, with its 13 million followers, was hijacked by a paperclip. There was no ransomware or data theft, just Clippy, a dodgy crypto coin, and a corporate apology that wasn’t from Microsoft either.
Meanwhile, UK losses from hack… Continue reading Smashing Security podcast #487: Clippy’s crypto comeback
There comes a point where you have to acknowledge that your beloved console is out of date and– barring the odd homebrew title– won’t be playing new games ever again. …read more Continue reading Streaming Games Means the Nintendo DSi Will Never Be Obsolete
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: Alphabet’s Google and gaming tools developer Unity Software announced a new platform that will allow people to create video games from simple text prompts, marking the latest incursion of generative a… Continue reading Google, Unity Launch Platform To Create Video Games From Prompts
Cisco has built a Quantum Network Controller, a research prototype that lets an application ask a quantum network for entanglement and leaves the network to work out the delivery. Entanglement, a linked quantum state shared between distant points, is t… Continue reading Cisco quantum network controller lets apps order entanglement on demand
DataBreaches has reported extensively on Silent Ransom Group in 2026, often including material provided exclusively to this site by the group. Now, what appears to be a leak of their internal chats may shed additional light on their success. DataBreach… Continue reading Can you really make more than $200M in six months without encrypting victims? It seems Silent Ransom Group can.