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Lovable after all? Once, we were stupidly in love. Our lives had changed in a beautiful, limitless kind of way. Our new lover, the tech company, promised a better, richer, more fulfilling world. Our lover told us that, finally, the world would see us for who we really were — wonderful, fascinating, and, most of […] More
Image: ZDNet The source code of a major ransomware strain named Dharma has been put up for sale on two Russian hacker forums over the weekend. The FBI, in a talk at the RSA security conference this year, ranked Dharma the second most lucrative ransomware operation in recent years, having extorted more than $24 million […] More
Et tu, Apple? Image: Alisina Elyasi The thought is tattooed across my forearms every time I pick up an Apple product. Tim Cook’s company stands truly, madly, deeply for privacy. The likes of Google and Facebook stand for deep intrusion into every nook of your personal space. At least, that’s Cook’s contention. I tend to […] More
Image: DrayTek, ZDNet Since at least early December 2019, a mysterious hacker group has been taking over DrayTek enterprise routers to eavesdrop on FTP and email traffic inside corporate networks, Chinese security firm Qihoo 360 said today. In a report published on the blog of its network security division Netlab, Qihoo said its researchers detected […] More
Image via PIRO4D A network of Bitcoin-to-QR-code generators has stolen more than $45,000 from users in the past four weeks, ZDNet has learned. The nine websites provided users with the ability to enter their Bitcoin address, a long string of text where Bitcoin funds are stored, and convert it into a QR code image they […] More
Growing up in the very median of Oklahoma’s “Tornado Alley,” I know first-hand the feeling of staring at the back side of a bolted-shut storm shelter door, and worrying the whole world will be gone when the wind dies down. After a considerable period of prayer, the next thing one does to tamp down the […] More
A team of researchers has published details of a new way to reliably create particles that are well-suited to use in quantum communications, which could lead to the unhackable communication protocols that have long been pitched as one of the most useful applications of the technology. Innovation The scientists generated entangled photons, a method which […] More
Everyone needs a password manager. Period, full stop. It’s the only possible way to maintain unique, hard-to-guess credentials for every secure site you, your family members, and your team access daily. Working from home: The future of business is remote From Fortune 500 enterprises to very small businesses, most every organization has been thrust into […] More
