How bombs and thermobarics cause injury and death
This story is adapted from Into the Waves: My Quest to Uncover the Mystery of a Civil War Submarineby Rachel…
Category: Security
NFTs are a privacy and security nightmare
Confusing Venmo decision turning payments into a social media feed where public transactions are the default has rightly been met…
Shutdown of Russian Hydra market disrupts ATM for crypto-crimes
In the dark web, taking down yet another cryptocurrency-based drug black market has become almost a semi-annual routine, with plenty…
Meta tries to break the dead end of end-to-end encryption
After years of tech companies and police tussling and clashing over end-to-end encryption, Meta this week brandished a new tool…
Europe is building a massive international facial recognition system
However, Prüm II allows the use of retrospective facial recognition. This means police forces can compare still images from CCTV…
Inside the Bitcoin bust that took down the biggest child abuse site on the web
Content Warning: The the story told here includes references to suicide and child abuse, although the abuse is not described…
The American Innovation and Online Choice Act is scaring big tech
If you want to tell how worried an industry is about a piece of pending legislation, a decent indicator is…
How Russia’s invasion prompted a US crackdown on its hackers
Since Russia started its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in late February, a wave of predictable cyberattacks has accompanied this offensive,…
TSA’s terrorist watch list is coming for Amtrak passengers
Like Russia’s war continues in Ukraine, the Biden White House is scrambling to use every tool at its disposal to…
What can hackers do with stolen source code?
The Digital Lapsus$ The extortion group is the latest to stage a high-profile data theft attack against major tech companies.…