School is back in session. But for how long? The Delta variant has caused a significant rise in cases and has reversed the steady decline of Covid-19 infections since January. The variant is more contagious, causes more severe illnesses, an…
Apple’s Tim Cook, Microsoft’s Satya Nadella, and Amazon’s Andy Jassy are among a group of tech CEOs that were called to a White House meeting Wednesday by President Joe Biden. The point of the gathering was to discuss efforts by private com…
On August 25, 2021, the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in San Diego California announced indictments against eight individuals they claim stole more than $2 million from victims over the age of 70 across the United Stat…
Andrew Gardner, Ph.D., has collected comic books since he was a kid. Back then, his favorite character was Iron Man because — unlike other superheroes — Iron Man created his special abilities: he designed and built his suit from scratch, an…
T-Mobile recently had a data breach which resulted in 47 million people’s data being leaked online. Much of that data was collected with user consent when they signed up for cellular phone service, but that’s not always the case in a data b…
We’ve all heard its origin story. Facebook, originally TheFacebook, was started in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg and some of his Harvard classmates as a social site for the school alone. It was a big hit, of course, and suddenly other campuses wa…
When it comes to online privacy, one Big Tech company has taken the lead. I’ll give you a hint: Their name is a fruit and their founder really liked black turtlenecks.
I got a weird call this weekend. That’s nothing special — my phone blows up with robocalls all day every day, just like everyone else’s — but the caller ID for this call caught my eye. It said “Cdc Natl Immun.” I thought about it for a seco…
There are many things we do online without thinking too much about them. We are often in such a hurry to accomplish necessary tasks online, or engrossed in what we are doing, that we open ourselves up to risks and cyber threats we might not…
Most of us are familiar with the primary methods for moving data into and off of our computers: think Wi-Fi networks, USB ports, and Bluetooth connections. However, there are additional, lesser known ways in which data can be retrieved from…