Fascinating Story Of Catching Man Behind World’s First Ransomware
The origin story of ransomware includes a Harvard-taught evolutionary biologist, 20 000 floppy discs, and motives that remain somewhat unclear to this day.
How To Check If You Were Part Of The Recent Facebook Data Leak
The data of 533 million Facebook users have been leaked. On the plus side, checking if you were one of those only takes a minute.
Unbelievable: Journo Challenges Hackers To Hack Him, With Shocking Results
In lieu of the Edward Snowden inspired paranoia about online privacy, Adam Penenberg, a journalist for Pando Daily, challenged a hacker to try to get as much information about him as possible, simply by using a PC. The man he challenged, Nick Percoco, considers himself a “white hat hacker” and has been breaking into companies (at their request) for some years now. The journalist in question had no idea what he was in for.