Never use a cannon to kill a fly
“Warner Bros. has long been among Hollywood’s most ferocious anti-piracy advocates, but it seems the studio has shot itself in the foot during its latest pursuit of [...]
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The police guards the seized money even from itself
“The New York City Police Department takes in millions of dollars in cash each year as evidence, often keeping the money through a procedure called civil forfeiture. But as [...]
The director strikes back
“HITB Florian Lukavsky hacks criminals profiting from out-of-control multi-billion dollar CEO wire transfer scams … and they hate him for it. The director of SEC [...]
What was the goal here?
Ars Technica writes: ““As for what motivated the hackers themselves, it was possible that they either objected to the embargo process or were interested in liberating [...]
Cameras, tape cover!
It sounds next-level paranoid, but covering your webcam with tape might not be a bad idea. Mark Zuckerberg does it. FBI Director James Comey does too. As The Next Web writes: [...]
Who will hack the upcoming US election?
“US security and intelligence officials as well as experts have expressed serious concerns over the recent rise in cyberattacks against the US and the possibility that [...]
AI will liberate our time
“Within five years robots and so-called intelligent agents will eliminate many positions in customer service, trucking and taxi services, amounting to 6 percent of [...]
Zombie army of devices
“Attackers could severely disrupt America’s 911 system, a new report suggests. A botnet of 400,000 infected phones could basically disable 911 nationwide. All the [...]
No need to fake-enhance the pictures, sorry CSI
“Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin and Cornell Tech say that they’ve trained a piece of software that can undermine the privacy benefits of standard [...]
A more neutral Internet?
“For years, the net neutrality debate has been at an impasse: either the internet is open or preferences are allowed. But the Stanford engineers – Professor Nick McKeown, [...]
The Cyber-Secret Futurist 