For Consumers
STEPS FORWARD: Math geniuses strive to make a pivotal advance — by obfuscating software code
Most of time we take for granted the degree to which fundamental components of civilization are steeped in mathematics.Everything from science and engineering to poetry and music rely on numeric calculations. Albert ...
SHARED INTEL: Coming soon — ‘passwordless authentication’ as a de facto security practice
As a tradeoff for enjoying our digital lives, we’ve learned to live with password overload and even tolerate two-factor authentication.But now, at long last, we’re on the brink of eliminating passwords altogether, ...
MY TAKE: Why companies and consumers must collaborate to stop the plundering of IoT systems
The Internet of Things (IoT) has come a long, long way since precocious students at Carnegie Melon University installed micro-switches inside of a Coca-Cola vending machine so they could remotely check on ...
MY TAKE: How ‘credential stuffing’ is being deployed to influence elections, steal Covid-19 relief
What do wildfires and credential stuffing have in common?Related: Automated attacks leverage big dataFor several years now, both have flared up and caused harm at the fringes of population centers and our ...
MY TAKE: Lessons learned from the summer of script kiddies hacking Twitter, TikTok
Graham Ivan Clark, Onel de Guzman and Michael Calce. These three names will go down in the history of internet commerce, right alongside Jack Dorsey, Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos.Related: How ‘Zero ...
GUEST ESSAY: Skeptical about buying life insurance online? Here’s how to do it — securely
Purchasing life insurance once meant going to an insurer’s office or booking an appointment with an insurance agent. Then, in most cases, you’d have to undergo a medical examination and wait a ...
MY TAKE: Even Google CEO Sundar Pichai agrees that it is imperative to embed ethics into AI
It took a global pandemic and the death of George Floyd to put deep-seated social inequities, especially systemic racism, front and center for intense public debate.Related: Will ‘blockchain’ lead to more equitable ...
ROUNDTABLE: What’s next, now that we know V.I.P Twitter users can so easily be spoofed?
Judging from the criminals’ meager pay day, the high-profile hack of Twitter, disclosed last week, was nothing much.Related: Study shows disinformation runs rampant on TwitterThe hackers insinuated their way deep into Twitter’s ...
MY TAKE: Remote classes, mobile computing heighten need for a security culture in K-12 schools
Parents have long held a special duty to protect their school-aged children from bad actors on the Internet.Related: Mock attacks help schools defend themselvesNow COVID-19 has dramatically and permanently expanded that parental ...
MY TAKE: Technologists, privacy advocates point to flaws in the Apple-Google COVID-19 tracing app
If the devastating health and economic ramifications weren’t enough, individual privacy is also in the throes of being profoundly and permanently disrupted by the coronavirus pandemic. The tech giants are partnering on ...
