Why Facebook’s Banned ‘Research’ App Was So Invasive
For the past three years, Facebook has paid consumers as young as 13 to download a “Facebook Research” application that gives the […]
Tag: Security
Facebook Hires Up Three of Its Biggest Privacy Critics
For years, critics have taken aim at Facebook’s privacy missteps, from the Cambridge Analytica scandal to this week’s revelation that Facebook has […]
Hackers Are Passing Around a Megaleak of 2.2 Billion Records
When hackers breached companies like Dropbox and LinkedIn in recent years—stealing 71 and 117 million passwords, respectively—they at least had the decency […]
How Secure Is Your Digital Super Bowl Experience?
Over the last few years I have traveled around the world, researching and watching stadiums digitally evolve from the structures I once […]
The Threat That the US Can’t Ignore: Itself
At its annual worldwide threat assessment hearing on Tuesday, top national security officials gave the Senate Intelligence Committee a rundown from top […]
Google Takes Its First Steps Toward Killing the URL
In September, members of Google’s Chrome security team put forth a radical proposal: Kill off URLs as we know them. The researchers […]
Apple Takes Drastic Measures to Stop a Nasty FaceTime Bug
It’s often hard to tell just how seriously to take reports of a new vulnerability. The jargon is inscrutable, and the skills […]
The Rise in Cryptomining
There are four primary motivations for cyberattacks: crime, hacktivism, espionage and war. Setting aside nation-state sponsored groups, the largest faction of attackers […]
The race to lock down industrial control systems | Salted Hash Ep 44
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Security Isn’t Enough. Silicon Valley Needs ‘Abusability’ Testing
Technology has never limited its effects to those its creators intended: It disrupts, reshapes, and backfires. And even as innovation’s unintended consequences […]