FBI Complains Device Encryption Locked Them Out of 7K Phones
FBI boss Christopher Wray complains the agency has been shut out of almost 7,000 seized mobile phones due to encryption. This seems to be a never-ending battle for law [...]
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Hardware Flaw Undermines RSA Encryption Keys
This week in cybersecurity seems to only have one direction – down. After researchers found a massive flaw in the WPA2 WiFi protocol that made every WiFi connection [...]
Millenials Fear AI Will Take Their Jobs
Artificial Intelligence is here to stay, just as technology in the greater sense has been for decades. It seems, however, that Millenials are now most afraid they will lose [...]
Companies Spying on Employee Accounts Need to Come Clean, European Court Rules
The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that companies must inform their employees if their work email accounts are being monitored. In a ruling that’s a clear [...]
Cyber Secrets in Danger After Researchers Find Way to Reverse 320M Hashed Passwords?
Passwords are what keep our cyber secrets safe, they’re there to keep our accounts locked, whether we’re talking email, cloud storage, Netflix, Facebook or [...]
HackerOne Hits $20M Paid Bounties, Shows Growing Importance of Ethical Hacking
HackerOne, the famous bug bounty platform, has reached $20 million in rewards handed out to white hats. This is great news, because it shows just how active ethical hackers [...]
The New Tech Bubble Is Initial Coin Offering
When Bancor launched its initial coin offering (ICO) on June 12, it raised a new record for such an event: 153 million USD worth of ether (Ethereum’s cryptocurrency) [...]
Blockchain, the Foundation for the New Decentralized Internet
Bitcoin has been in the mainstream news several times before since its inception in 2008 and often mentioned as the favorite form of cryptocurrency of hackers, the dark web, [...]
HBO Game of Thrones Hack Highlights Disturbing “Hacking for Damage” Trend
The situation with the HBO hack is becoming more and more ridiculous. Not only have the hackers dumped the script of the upcoming Game of Thrones episode online, but [...]
Self-Driving Cars Can Be Fooled By Modified Street Signs
With more and more auto makers aiming to create self-driving cars, we’re all dreaming about the day when our streets will be filled with cars that follow the rules [...]
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