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Motherboard noticed some interesting activity on popular dark web marketplace AlphaBay recently. Apparently, at least two vendors are selling what appears to be active Uber accounts. Once you’ve purchased one of these stolen accounts, you can access all of the account’s payment informati
Which state governments have the best cybersecurity policy? The answer may surprise you. According to a new report, Idaho and Mississippi are far above the other 48 states when it comes to cybersecurity thanks to their reliance on people who actually know what the hell they’re talking about in
If law enforcement wants to get its hands on someone’s past cellphone location data, they’ll need to get their hands on a warrant. This is due to a recent ruling by a federal judge in California which has been regarded as a major win for privacy by digital rights activists. As it stands,
The NSA has made its dislike of encryption abundantly clear, something made even clearer last week when the agency’s director called for companies to allow the government to insert backdoors into their communications software. With that in mind, I imagine the NSA is going to absolutely loath S
Mobile growth has remained steady in the developed world due to the fact that pretty much everyone already has a mobile device, but things are different in developing nations. These nations are still playing catch-up and with many of them experiencing economic and technological booms, mobile growth
It was revealed last week that the GCHQ and the NSA conducted a joint operation that resulted in the theft of thousands of encryption keys from the world’s largest manufacturer of cellphone SIM cards which may have granted the two spy agencies access to the communication information of million
Silk? Meh. Taffeta? Blergh. When it came time to craft her latest dress, Dutch artist Anouk Wipprecht instead turned to 3D printing and one of Intel’s teensy Edison modules for something truly special. The end result? A “spider” dress that leaps to defend its wearer when it senses
Don’t like that many of the big, traditional news outlets hide the online editions of their stories behind paywalls? Neither does artist Paolo Cirio, who designed Daily Paywall as a protest against what he sees as an attempt to limit your access to information. The website uses scripting to au
While Sony is still licking its post-hack wounds it’s going on the offensive about its leaked emails. Right now it looks like it’s going after Twitter and Twitter users. Vice’s tech site, Motherboard reports that it has in its possession a letter from Sony lawyer, David Boies sent to Twitter’s gener
Biodegradable plastics exist because traditional ones take between 20 and 1,000 years to break down in the wild, often blocking waterways and killing animals as that all happens. That’s why two industrial designers and a group of microbiologists have designed a way to break down plastic —
Slow-motion photography is cool and all, but now a team of scientists has decided to use high-speed photography to track light as it travels through space. In this GIF, you’re looking at a pulse of light hitting and bouncing off of a mirror. Really. The researchers, based in Washington Univers
A Japanese space probe named after a falcon blasted off on Wednesday, setting off on a six-year round trip to an asteroid for samples that scientists hope will help reveal the origins of life. The launch of the Hayabusa 2, postponed twice because of bad weather, comes less than a month after a Europ
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