Aug 4, 2018 | Business, Internet, Radio Show, Security
Ridesharing livestreams on Twitch raise privacy worries (update: Uber cuts access) When you step into a ridesharing car, you probably assume that whatever you do inside the vehicle won’t be recorded for posterity. But what if it turned out that you were not only...
Jul 28, 2018 | Business, Google, Internet, Radio Show, Security
Gmail app developers have been reading your emails “This is a catastrophe,” my wife said—slightly horrified—as she swiped through page after page of apps on my phone. “Why do you even have most of these?” It’s a good question. It’s hard to believe that just a decade...
Jul 28, 2018 | Business, Google, Internet, Radio Show, Security
Google’s 89,000+ employees have had zero phishing incidents since switching to hardware security keys in 2017 Phishing attacks are deceptively successful against less experienced users, but even those that consider themselves reasonably technical can occasionally fall...
Jul 21, 2018 | Business, Computers, Internet, Radio Show, Security
A Real-Life Hacker Reveals What You Should Stop Doing Online One tip: Before you Insta that photo, pay attention to what’s in the background. Stephanie Carruthers is a “white hat” hacker known as Snow whose clients include both Fortune 100 companies and startups. In...
Jul 21, 2018 | Business, Radio Show, Security, Technology
The SIM Hijackers Meet the hackers who flip seized Instagram handles and cryptocurrency in a shady, buzzing underground market for stolen accounts and usernames. Their victims’ weakness? Phone numbers. It seemed like any other warm September night in the suburbs...
Jul 21, 2018 | Business, Internet, Radio Show, Security
The Worst Cybersecurity Breaches of 2018 So Far LOOKING BACK AT the first six months of 2018, there haven’t been as many government leaks and global ransomware attacks as there were by this time last year, but that’s pretty much where the good news ends....