Articles from April 17, 2015
April 17, 2015
Two Egyptian security researchers figured out how to clone other people's YouTube comments. You could "borrow" approvals and positive reviews so that they appeared to promote your videos, too.
April 17, 2015
Julian Assange of the whistle-blowing site, WikiLeaks, says that Sony Pictures' data should be publicly available due to its links with "geo-political conflict".
April 17, 2015
A recent document about Air Traffic Control from the US Government Accountability Office has caused quite a stir. Could a passenger get the plane to do a barrel roll without even turning off the in-flight movie?
April 17, 2015
As military software becomes more mature and more powerful it is increasingly trusted to act autonomously, but there is one crucial decision that we've not yet ceded; the decision to end human lives.
April 17, 2015
Target says it reached a $19 million settlement with MasterCard to cover some of the damages to financial institutions after its December 2013 data breach. How much more is this breach going to cost?
April 17, 2015
All it would take to compromise it is to sit in the parking lot with a laptop, some free tools, and a dropper full of tech smarts.
April 17, 2015
When email was invented over 40 years ago, no one thought about how to ensure the integrity of messages. Here's what you need to know about securing email with the right kind of encryption.
April 17, 2015
Just do a Google search on "Find My Phone," and presto! It will show up on a Google map. Then, you can get it to ring its head off.