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BadUSB: the technology world’s newest incurable, unpredictable plague
Using a USB is no longer one of the safest ways to transfer files between computers. Why? Because two researchers (Karsten Noll and Jakob Lell of SRLabs) have discovered a way to reprogram the device’s...
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Computer programming’s misrepresented past has large effect on young women’s...
Today if you walk into a computer programming or computer science class on nearly any college campus, the room will be filled with primarily young adult males. Does this shock you? It shouldn’t. Yet...
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The Snappening: users shocked by release of “deleted” photos sent using...
You snap a pic, send it to a specific user, and assume that it will be automatically deleted once it is viewed on the user’s Snapchat account. PLOT TWIST. Turns out that it isn’t this simple and...
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Verizon is selling your Internet use information to advertisers…and there’s...
You search for a website on your phone and assume that your internet provider is the only one who knows where you visit. Turns out if you have Verizon, you were wrong. Recently it has been discovered...
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Bottle rockets to space shuttles: DARPA and Northrop blast past former world...
While it is not yet time to get in line for a terahertz chip powered computer, it is time to recognize that the possibility isn’t as far off as may have been previously assumed. Why? DARPA and Northrop...
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Intel and HP in hot water over falsified tests for Pentium 4 from early 2000s
Yikes! Turns out Intel manipulated benchmark scores for the first-gen Pentium 4 processors. Not enough techno drama? HP had a hand in the act. The two allegedly published false tests to give the...
View ArticleMasquerade: newest attack on Apple’s iOS aims to gain access to secure...
The National Cybersecurity and Communications Integrations Center and the U. S. Computer Emergency Readiness Teams have shared that a method dubbed as a Masque Attack is being used to hack into iOS...
View ArticleFirst Verizon, now AT&T; supercookies taking a bite out of users’ trust in...
Earlier in the month we shared about how Verizon has been tracking users’ internet habits and selling them to advertisers for personalizing marketing efforts. Remember how we also shared that AT&T...
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Free Wifi in NYC
One of the saddest sights for technology: payphones. These once life-saving devices now sit unused in cities all over the world creating more of an eyesore than a lifeline. In New York City’s five...
View ArticleSmokin’ deal: cheap e-cigs can infect computers when connected through USB
The jury is still out on the validity of this story but it’s worth sharing even if just for a laugh. An nondescript company executive’s computer was recently attacked by malware after charging his...
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