Getting past the most basic physical security of all: Learning to pick locks at DEFCON 22
Much like my experience with learning to hack at RSA, learning to pick locks was something that I was very interested in learning how to do, but approached with much trepidation given that I had zero experience with the practice. Nevertheless I thought I'd give it a shot, so I headed down to the Lockpicking Village at this year's DEFCON 22 so I could be shown the ropes.
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Google, Facebook go beyond social, beyond identity
In order to understand the strange but spectacularly profitable world of Google and Facebook today, it's important to start in the fall of 2010.
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Payment cards with chips aren't perfect, so encrypt everything, experts say
There's a push to adopt chip-equipped payment cards in the U.S. following high-profile breaches at large retailers and restaurant chains during the past 12 months, but experts warn that switching to this payment system will not make fraud disappear.
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Steve Jobs was 'central figure' in Silicon Valley hiring case, judge says
In rejecting a proposed settlement in Silicon Valley's closely watched "no hire" case, District Judge Lucy Koh said on Friday there's strong evidence that Steve Jobs was a central figure, if not "the" central figure, in the alleged conspiracy to suppress workers' wages.
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Seven ways DARPA is trying to kill the password
A seemingly constant stream of data breaches and this week's news that Russian hackers have amassed a database of 1.2 billion Internet credentials has many people asking: Isn't it time we dumped the user name and password?
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Judge says settlement is too low in Silicon Valley hiring case
A California judge has rejected the proposed settlement in a lawsuit over no-hire agreements among top Silicon Valley companies, saying the amount being offered to compensate workers is too low.
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New WorldView 3 satellite to offer unprecedented look at the globe
DigitalGlobe's WorldView 3 satellite, scheduled to launch next week, promises to bring unprecedented resolution to commercial satellite imagery.
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FCC mandates emergency texting services from carriers, texting apps
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission voted Friday to require U.S. mobile carriers and many text-messaging apps to enable users to text emergency dispatch centers, even after questions about whether the centers will be ready by the deadline.
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Peer pressure! Business pushing the cloud on enterprise IT
When you graduated from high school, you might have thought peer pressure was mostly over.
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