How to Use Your Cat to Hack Your Neighbor’s Wi-Fi
Late last month, a Siamese cat named Coco went wandering in his suburban Washington, DC neighborhood. And while he was out, Coco mapped dozens of his neighbors’ Wi-Fi networks, identifying four routers that used an old, easily-broken form of encryption and another four that were left entirely unprotected.
August 8, 2014 at 9:13AM
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Leaked Files: German Spy Company Helped Bahrain Hack Arab Spring Protesters
Newly leaked documents show that FinFisher, a German surveillance company, helped Bahrain spy on human rights lawyers and a now-jailed opposition leader.
August 8, 2014 at 7:23AM
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Silicon Valley Tech Entrepreneurs: Behind the Stereotype
The tech industry is arrogant, entitled and overwhelmingly male. But most annoyingly, they’re indispensible.
August 8, 2014 at 6:21AM
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Plot Thickens as 900 Writers Battle Amazon
Douglas Preston wrote an open letter to his readers asking them to contact Jeff Bezos, demanding that Amazon stop using writers as hostages in its negotiations. As of earlier this week, 909 writers had signed on, including household names like John Grisham and Stephen King.
August 8, 2014 at 6:21AM
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In Fight With Hackers, We Are on Our Own
A brush with identity theft was a rude reminder that consumers have to go it alone when they run into cybercriminals.
August 8, 2014 at 4:15AM
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How we got here: a visual history of US mobile companies
Had the T-Mobile/Sprint merger gone through, we would’ve found ourselves with three wireless companies, each with more than 100 million customers.
August 8, 2014 at 2:12AM
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What It’s Like Raising Money As A Woman In Silicon Valley
It’s no joke that I now arrive at investor meetings prepared to field inappropriate personal questions just as often as I field questions about our CAC, revenue projections and expected exit.
August 7, 2014 at 10:53PM
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Storm Chasing On Saturn
It’s springtime on Saturn, and the hexagon is out. An immense six-sided hurricane, a storm big enough to swallow four Earths, is finally back in the sunlight after 30 years.
August 7, 2014 at 7:46PM
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How the Web Became Our ‘External Brain,’ and What It Means for Our Kids
Recently, my two-year-old nephew Benjamin came across a copy of Vanity Fair abandoned on the floor. His eyes scanned the glossy cover, which shone less fiercely than the iPad he is used to but had a faint luster of its own. I watched his pudgy thumb and index finger pinch together and spread apart on Bradley Cooper’s smiling mug. At last, Benjamin looked over at me, flummoxed and frustrated, as though to say, “This thing’s broken.”
August 7, 2014 at 2:32PM
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What Happened to the Cord Cutters?
Netflix, YouTube, Apple TV and the Internet at large are supposed to kill off pay TV, some day. But right now, pay TV seems like it is doing okay: Cord-cutting, which was supposed to accelerate with help from tech disrupters, looks like it may be slowing down.
August 7, 2014 at 1:30PM
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