Incident response firms negotiate with hackers while also processing payments to them, leading to potential betrayals of their clients’ trust.
cybersecurity
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Microsoft Is Abandoning Windows 10. Hackers Are Celebrating.
The company will stop supporting the OS on October 14. Advocacy groups warn this will leave up to 400 million computers vulnerable to hacks or in the dump.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Donald Trump, the Crown Prince of Crime
While the president howls about crime in liberal cities, he is taking drastic action to make it worse everywhere.
Posted inPolitics
Government by Malicious Autopilot
The hostile takeover of federal IT systems is intended to use technology to reach preordained conclusions.
Posted inAmerica and the World
Elon Musk’s China Threat
The shadow president has deep ties to the Chinese dictatorship, and it shows. The risk to national security is unimaginable.
Posted inAmerica and the World
Everything You Wanted to Know About World War III but Were Afraid to Ask
For generations, we thought fear of nuclear holocaust would prevent world war. Is that faith obsolete?
Posted inLaw and Justice
Texas State Police Gear Up for Massive Expansion of Surveillance Tech
DPS plans to spend millions in taxpayer dollars on a controversial software, used first as part of Gov. Abbott’s border crackdown, to ‘disrupt potential domestic terrorism.’
Posted inTAP
Dear Hackers: Please Send Me the Trump Campaign Emails
Today on TAP: I promise to treat them with the utmost in journalistic integrity.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
CrowdSuck
How did software designed to protect customers from paralyzing system disruptions instead cause what may be the most destructive software glitch in recorded history? A 2018 antitrust case holds some clues.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Hello From the Middleman Economy
The reason things feel like they’re so broke is that they are.