Several months in to the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s starting to look like there are a few different formulas for beating the disease. Countries like Taiwan and Japan used their previous experience and cultural cohesion to flatten the curve without resorting …
Early on the morning of July 16, 2001 Russian programmer Dmitry Sklyarov left his Las Vegas hotel room with nothing more pressing on his mind than getting a bite to eat before his flight back to Moscow. Instead, he walked …
The baby started to fear the dark when he was three. It wasn’t an unusual fear or an unusual age for night terrors, so at first his parents went through the usual motions. Don’t be afraid. There’s nothing out there, …
Amazon announced a major expansion of its Amazon Web Services offerings in late November 2017 with the creation of the new Secret Region for secure cloud services and storage for government agencies. The Secret Region will join the 14 public …
The data started trickling out onto the internet in the summer of 2016 and, at first, no one knew quite what to make of it. A Twitter account, which largely went unnoticed, tweeted out links to anonymous public repositories that …
There is a lot of information security work that happens primarily in the brain, outthinking your opponent and designing conceptually safe and reliable systems. In fact, you might argue that a cybersecurity pro’s most valuable tools are in his head: …
Hardly anyone in the cybersecurity field didn’t see this coming. When credit reporting giant Equifax announced on September 7, 2017 that hackers had penetrated their systems and stolen records containing social security numbers, names, addresses, and other private financial data …