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The KooZoo camera app: It's a jungle out there
This post was originally published on January 28, 2015. What if you could turn smartphones or iPods into a streaming cameras, then get a look at what other people doing the same thing were streaming w...
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"Bring your own device" to work: Is it worth it?
This article was originally published on January 8, 2015. More than half of employees worldwide bring a personal mobile device to work. That's the word from CIO, which notes that while adoption varies...
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Want to watch “The Interview”? Watch out!
By all accounts, “The Interview” isn't that great a film. Rotten Tomatoes has just 61 percent of moviegoers and 52 percent of critics giving the film a favorable review, yet the action-comedy piec...
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Top 10 security breaches of 2014
That's right folks, it's time. Time for a roundup of the year's worst IT security breaches and how they've impacted the tech market at large. And away we go, with: 1) University of Maryland Let's sta...
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Theft from the skies: Could cell phone data theft affect you?
This post was originally published on November 25, 2014. Now that smartphones are everywhere, it’s easy to forget just how remarkable they really are. When you take a moment to think about everythin...
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Verizon's 'perma-cookie': Just another example of how ISPs invade, threaten our privacy
**Update: Verizon forced 'supercookies' on all of their customers until March 2015, when several senators raised privacy concerns over the practice. One year later, in March 2016, Verizon agreed to a ...
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Laura Poitras and the Digital Exiles
This post was originally published on November 14, 2014. This year, documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras released what may be her most controversial project yet: Citizenfour. The film focuses on NSA ...
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OS X Yosemite: Are security and privacy the first thought or an afterthought?
Mac OS X Yosemite (10.10) has arrived and, according to Apple, it comes with safety. Built right in. The company’s claim that security was “The first thought. Not an afterthought,” is both inter...
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Smart meters, dumb security? Hacking the Internet of Things
This post was originally published on October 23, 2014. According to the UK's Department of Energy and Climate Change, almost 100,000 smart meters were installed in homes through the second quarter of...
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Soggy cardboard? Dropbox says it wasn’t hacked
This post was originally published on October 17, 2014. Snowden called it, apparently. In a recent interview, the NSA whistleblower warned cloud storage users to avoid Dropbox because the service does...
