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How a Tesla employee saved the company from a ransomware attack
This post was originally published on September 15, 2020. The FBI recently announced the arrest of Russian national Egor Igorevich Kriuchkov, charged with a conspiracy to recruit an employee of Tesla ...
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A researcher hacked satellite internet connections with $300 equipment
This post was originally published on September 9, 2020. Satellite internet connections are a necessity in areas where broadband or cellular internet is unavailable. They’re commonly used by workers...
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Notorious eavesdropper NSA issues guide to hiding your location data
This post was originally published on September 2, 2020. You couldn’t make this up if you tried. The National Security Agency (NSA)—yes, the same organization that started a massive illegal survei...
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The social contract of the internet is under threat. That’s a problem
In the age of big tech, a small number of platforms have a leviathanic reach across the interwebs. We might be forgiven for thinking that this is the way things were meant to be. But that couldn’t b...
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The history of the internet, when it was invented, and how it got to where it is today
The internet has become an integral part of our lives more rapidly than anyone could have ever imagined. In the late 1990s, it seemingly appeared out of nowhere and took the world by storm. Today, bei...
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Interview: Encryption expert Riana Pfefferkorn on the erosion of online free speech
This post was originally published on August 20, 2020. Riana Pfefferkorn is the associate director of surveillance and cybersecurity at Stanford’s Center for Internet and Society (CIS), a technology...
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Interested in cybersecurity jobs? You'll need these skills
It’s no secret that cybersecurity jobs are in high demand. The median salary for cybersecurity analysts is about 100,000 USD a year, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. What’s more, ...
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Face masks do help evade facial recognition tech—for now
This post was originally published on August 15, 2020. Two birds, one stone: Not only do face masks help stem the transmission of the novel coronavirus, but a new study also suggests that they might m...
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The CIA was secretly granted much more freedom to carry out cyberattacks
This post was originally published on August 7, 2020. Yahoo News has reported that the CIA was granted sweeping powers by President Donald Trump in 2018 to conduct cyberattacks against adversaries of ...
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Big changes to data protection laws in the EU and Brazil
If you’re one of the 656 million people who live in the EU or Brazil, then a series of recent developments might impact the way companies like Facebook and Google handle your data. The first, a ruli...
