Security

Credit to Author: Brian Barrett| Date: Sat, 04 Mar 2017 00:59:53 +0000

Mike Pence joins an ever-growing list of public figures whose email account fell to hackers. It only gets worse from here.

Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2017 22:29:42 +0000

A vulnerability in Slack left every account potentially exposed. Thank goodness the caught it in time.

Credit to Author: Jennifer Stisa Granick| Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2017 14:00:10 +0000

Mass surveillance seems like it would be a valuable national security tool. In reality, it’s doesn’t help much at all.

Credit to Author: Adam Rawnsley| Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2017 12:00:34 +0000

Even if all of President Trump’s proposed new defense spending goes through, figuring out what to spend it on will be its own battle

Credit to Author: Elizabeth Weil| Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2017 10:45:45 +0000

It’s a one-of-a-kind geological artifact. What’s it worth? Maybe $100 million, maybe nothing. But those who’ve pursued it have definitely paid a price.

Credit to Author: Jeremy Hsu| Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2017 12:00:01 +0000

An Army missile converted into an anti-ship weapon could prove a powerful deterrent against China’s naval power.

Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2017 16:27:05 +0000

Is the effort to end-to-end encrypt Gmail dead, or just a lot harder than it looks?