The Mirai Botnet Architects Are Now Fighting Crime With the FBI
The three college-age defendants behind the the Mirai botnet—an online tool that wreaked destruction across the internet in the fall of 2016 […]
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IoT, 5G Networks and Cybersecurity: Safeguarding 5G Networks with Automation and AI
By 2020, Gartner says there will be 20.4 billion IoT devices. That rounds out to almost three devices per person on earth. […]
Edward Snowden on Protecting Activists Against Surveillance
WIRED ICON Edward Snowden, NSA whistle-blower NOMINATES Malkia Cyril, Founder of the Center for Media Justice, cofounder of Media Action Grassroots Network […]
Palmer Luckey Is Just Getting Started
WIRED ICON Peter Thiel, Cofounder of PayPal and Palantir, prominent libertarian NOMINATES Palmer Luckey, Founder of Oculus and Anduril Peter Thiel sometimes […]
Facebook Broadens Its Bug Bounty to Include Third-Party Apps
Facebook was a relatively early proponent of so-called bug bounties, paying out more than $6 million to security researchers who have spotted […]
Kid-Focused Apps Track Location, UK Spying, and More Security News This Week
Tesla is in the news again this week, but this time it has nothing to do with fires or Twitter or Elon […]
A Decade-Old Attack Can Break the Encryption of Most PCs
If you want to secure the data on your computer, one of the most important steps you can take is encrypting its […]
Why Big Tech and the Government Need to Work Together
The arc of innovation has reached an inflection point: technological change now threatens to overwhelm us. Discovery is unstoppable, but it must be shaped […]
Adopt TLS 1.3 – Kill Two Birds with One Stone
Transport Layer Security (TLS) version 1.3 provides significant business benefits by making applications more secure, improving performance and reducing latency for the […]
Trump’s New Executive Order Slaps a Bandaid on Election Interference Problems
On Wednesday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order that would automatically impose sanctions against any person or group attempting to interfere […]