If you've ever scanned a digital boarding pass directly from your phone at airport security, you can imagine how doing the same with your driver's license would make life a little easier. Beginning in iOS…
This week marked the arrival of Amazon Sidewalk, a mesh network that enlists your Echo and Ring devices to share bandwidth with others in the vicinity. Since the company opted everyone in without asking, here's…
The FBI's repeated success in overcoming its “going dark” problem belie the protestations that it's an existential threat. In some ways, Anom shows just how creative the agency's workarounds can be. Researchers caution, though, that…
Today, Electronic Arts confirmed that hackers stole a massive amount of data from the video game publisher. A dark web forum poster claimed to have obtained 780 gigabytes of data in the attack, including the…
And that’s not all! CDNs don’t just store content closer to the devices that crave it. They also help direct it across the internet. “It is like orchestrating traffic flow on a massive road system,”…
Today Amazon is turning on Sidewalk, a way to extend internet service between Amazon devices like Echo smart speakers and Ring cameras. Unless you opt out, your Amazon devices will automatically start participating in this…
No matter what, remember the number one rule: You should always be able to say no. Not just to taking or sharing the photos initially, but anything that comes after. If you don’t want a…
Ransomware was on everyone's mind again this week as the world's largest meat processing company, JBS SA, faced an attack that crippled its operations in Australia and North America. The company was able to restore…
In the ever-urgent quest to ensure United States elections are safe and secure, Microsoft’s ElectionGuard software has been a tantalizing development. The project, launched in 2019, offers what's known as "end-to-end verifiability," meaning that all…
The disruptive power of ransomware was already on full display last month, thanks to the Colonial Pipeline attack that for days halted fuel distribution from a crucial pipeline on the East Coast of the United…