Zoom Upgrades Encryption Keys to What It Promised All Along
It was another week of social distancing or quarantine for most of the world, but Google published findings that it has seen […]
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25 Years After Oklahoma City, Domestic Terrorism Is on the Rise
As the United States marks the 25th anniversary Sunday of the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, […]
Russian Hackers Went After San Francisco International Airport
The argument over Apple and Google’s plan to use Bluetooth to help with Covid-19 contact tracing escalated this week. But while plenty […]
You Can Now Check If Your ISP Uses Basic Security Measures
For more than an hour at the beginning of April, major sites like Google and Facebook sputtered for large swaths of people. […]
A Vital Hack Could Turn Medical Devices Into Ventilators
As infections from the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic continue to climb, hospitals around the world are struggling with a potentially fatal shortage of […]
Signal Threatens to Leave the US If EARN IT Act Passes
On Friday, Apple and Google announced a joint collaboration to make a Covid-19 “contact tracing” framework available for legions of Android and […]
Vote by Mail Isn’t Perfect. But It’s Essential in a Pandemic
Election security has become a more prominent (and urgent) topic in the United States over the past few years, but as the […]
Clever Cryptography Could Protect Privacy in Covid-19 Contact-Tracing Apps
Before the Covid-19 pandemic, any system that used smartphones to track locations and contacts sounded like a dystopian surveillance nightmare. Now, it […]
A Cheap 3D Printer Can Trick Smartphone Fingerprint Locks
It’s been nearly a decade since fingerprint sensors proliferated as a quick and easy unlocking mechanism for smartphones and laptops. Attacks to […]
The Defense Production Act Won’t Fix America’s N95 Face Mask Shortage
The metastasizing coronavirus outbreak in the United States has left health care providers and government officials facing a humbling reality as they […]