On December 2, 2015, fourteen individuals were killed and many others wounded during a shooting at San Bernardino’s Inland Regional Center, a facility that provided services for the developmentally disabled, as reported by the New York Times. The event was classified as a terrorist attack, and the two shooters, Syed Rizwan Farook, 28 and Tashfeen Malik, 27, were […]

With all the end-to-end encryption built into their framework, smartphones are impenetrable, save for advanced backdoor hacking, right? Wrong. Computer security researchers from the University of Michigan and the University of South Carolina say that simple sound waves, when utilized effectively, can successfully hack not only smartphones, but also wearable fitness monitors like Fitbit and […]

Candidate Donald Trump came down hard on the tech industry during his campaign. He called for closing off the internet to Islamic radicals and said a boycott against tech giant Apple was in order for its refusal to cooperate with the FBI and unlock an iPhone associated with last year’s San Bernardino, California shootings. The […]

MIT researchers claim to have created the first five-atom quantum computer capable of cracking traditional encryption methods, potentially enabling the government to crack all encryption in seconds. In traditional computing, numbers are represented by 0’s and 1’s. In quantum computing, however, these units are referred to as “qubits”, and can occupy a superposition of different […]

Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center chose to pay a $17,000 ransom to hackers who took the institution’s computer network hostage. The hackers said they wouldn’t hand the computer systems over until the medical center paid the ransom, according to the hospital’s chief executive on Monday. The incident took place on Feb. 5th when hackers used a […]

People have been trying to block ads since they first made their way into newspapers. They’ve leaped from the pages of the publishing industry to the mainstream, and are becoming increasingly difficult to block in the wake of the cyber era. In other words, the struggle is real. Fortunately, ad blockers do exist. Unfortunately, not […]

RFID technology is becoming increasingly common, as computer chips are now routinely being placed inside passports, drivers’ licenses and credit cards. Some school districts even insert them into student IDs in order to track their movements, disciplining them when they are caught missing class. However, as is the case with most new technology, it is […]