If it's August in Las Vegas, it's time for Hacker Summer Camp. There are three hacker conferences that coordinate to happen next to each other every year: BSides Las Vegas, Black Hat and DEF CON. My f

There's no doubt that the internet has enabled criminals to share illicit and vile content with ease. The advent of high-quality end-to-end encrypted communications has made sharing this material hard

All software has bugs, so the more software you have installed, the more bugs you have. It's not just the bugs in any individual application, but it's also magnified by interactions between some appli

Cameras are everywhere. Every person you pass on the street has a camera on their phone and security cameras are everywhere. They're so cheap and small now, and most of them are connected to the cloud

The "rolling code" technology used to remotely open and lock your car is supposed to prevent hacking. Unfortunately, Honda has a pretty serious vulnerability in their cars that apparently allows anyon

We take that little box that connects our home to the internet for granted. But in reality, it's often the only thing hiding our computers and vulnerable IoT devices from automated, remote attacks. Th

This week we'll talk about three significant new data breaches. Each of these data leaks are important in different ways, but the trend is clear: data wants to be free. First of all, we need to stop c

While many of us prefer order in our lives, at least most of the time, we sometimes need a little chaos. Specifically, we need a source of true randomness in order to properly drive many of our crypto

Firefox officially rolled out its Total Cookie Protection feature last week, which is a clever and elegant solution for blocking tracking using third party cookies. Unfortunately... it doesn't seem to

Everyone hates dealing with passwords, and yet they've been the de facto standard of computer authentication for decades. But there's light at the end of this long tunnel. There is a passwordless futu