Here is a list of tips on how to manage your work from home. Draw the work/life balance line When you work from home, “always” is your workday. There are always more emails to process, more tasks to complete, more jobs to finish up. This exists because the dividing line between “work” and “home” is…
Emsisoft researchers dissected a new ransomware strain that demands users not only pay to recover their encrypted files, but also for immunity from future attacks. The threat is called Spora, and it’s the work of highly professional bad guys if you look at the well-implemented encryption procedures, no need of a C&C server, the user-friendly payment…
Is your new drone just got missing ? Like any good pilot, James Michael knows the number of successful landings should equal the number of successful take-offs, but that’s easier said than done with a toy drone. James is being extra careful with his quad-copter because of what happened with the first one he got for Christmas. “I…
If you haven’t already heard, you should probably download encrypted messaging app Signal and email encryption Virtru. Between high-profile security failures and the Russian hacks before the election, we should know by now to secure our personal data. But some people worry that government surveillance will expand under a Donald Trump presidency, especially because he…
Once again, hackers are showing why you should never, ever download apps outside official app stores. Hackers have gained access to more than 1.3 million Google accounts – emails, photos, documents and more – by infecting Android phones through illegitimate apps. Apparently the hackers have managed to steal digital “tokens” that give them access to…
Imagine walking down the street, only to notice an ATM spewing money out of its slots and into a bag held by a shady looking character; but not in a video game. A cybergang has been hacking the computer systems of European and Asian banks and forcing ATMs to spew out cash, warns security outfit…
So the holiday season is finally here, along with a wide spread of hackable gifts It’s the most wonderful time of the year, but I’m feeling anxious — security anxious, that is. Every year, we see a new round of electronic gadgets to gift during the holidays—and even indulge in ourselves. But more often than not,…
Is that time for cyborgs? Lepht Anonym wants everyone to know the door to transcending normal human capabilities is no farther away than your own kitchen. It’s just going to hurt like a sonofabitch. Anonym is a biohacker, a woman who has spent the last several years learning how to extend her own senses by putting…
Have you ever wondered how a car insurance agent giving you a quote knows so much about you? Well, a lot of the information they get comes directly from the C.L.U.E. report. CLUE is short for Comprehensive Loss Underwriting Exchange. The CLUE report offers is a database of information which contains all of your insurance…