32 Ways to Secure Your Digital Life
For every freedom and convenience we enjoy in our digital lives, there are countless cyber do-badders looking for ways to exploit them. Fight back with these 32 ways to protect your digital life! Call us cynical or hard-edged, but we frankly believe that the world is filled with hustlers, grifters, and crooks out to bamboozle…
The Simplest—And Most Common—Cellphones Are Vulnerable To The “SMS Of Death”
Despite how obsessed we may be with smartphones, it’s the simplest cellphones which are most common—and the most vulnerable. In fact, it seems that many of those phones could be rendered useless by a maliciously crafted SMS. https://gizmodo.com/the-most-popular-phone-in-the-world-5634258 It’s a scene from an as-yet-unmade thriller – across a country, tens of thousands of cell phones…
Breaking GSM Security With a $15 Phone
Whatever assurances have been given about the security of GSM cellphone calls, forget about them now. Speaking at the Chaos Computer Club (CCC) Congress here today, a pair of researchers demonstrated a start-to-finish means of eavesdropping on encrypted GSM cellphone calls and text messages, using only four sub-$15 telephones as network “sniffers,” a laptop computer…
Santa’s Privacy Policy
At Santa’s Workshop, your privacy is important. What follows is an explanation of how Santa’s Workshop collects and safeguards your personal information; the kind of information it collects; and your choices regarding the use and disclosure of this information. Why Do We Need This Information? Santa Claus requires your information in order to compile his…
It’s Official: Printer Ink Cartridge Bombs Were Designed to Be Undetectable
We’ve discussed the printer ink cartridge bombs used by a group of terrorists about a month ago and we’ve pondered just how evildoers hide their bombs, but now we’re discovering exactly how terrifyingly well those explosives avoid detection. https://gizmodo.com/a-look-at-the-tech-inside-printer-cartridge-bombs-5678925 Ever since al-Qaeda’s Yemen branch snuck two bomb-packed printers onto cargo aircraft in October, it’s been…
Court Rules That the Government Needs a Warrant Before Secretly Reading Your Email
The government must obtain a court warrant to require internet service providers to turn over stored e-mail to the authorities, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday. The decision by the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals was the first time an appellate court said Americans had that Fourth Amendment protection. “The government may not compel…
