A burr grinder is the automatic, electronic version of the manual coffee mills people have been using to grind coffee for centuries. Whether it’s a flat or conical burr grinder (I explain the differences in my Best Coffee Grinders guide), those heavy-duty burrs are going to break coffee beans down into a relatively uniform size, […]
The US State Department is imposing visa restrictions on 13 people involved in the development and sale of commercial spyware, as well as their spouses and children. “These individuals have facilitated or derived financial benefit from the misuse of this technology, which has targeted journalists, academics, human rights defenders, dissidents and other perceived critics, and […]
Cybersecurity breaches can be devastating for both individuals and businesses alike. While many people tend to focus on understanding how and why they were targeted by such breaches, there’s a larger, more pressing question: What is the true financial impact of a cyberattack? According to research by Cybersecurity Ventures, the global cost of cybercrime is […]
A ransomware gang accessed the personal information of more than 27,000 people on Stanford University servers during a cyberattack last year, the university warned this week. The California-based school began sending out breach notification letters this week, 10 months after the Akira ransomware gang first compromised the school’s systems. Stanford University released a statement on […]
More than 18,000 people associated with New Jersey law enforcement filed a class action lawsuit against LexisNexis Risk Data Management, LLC on Monday, alleging that after they asked for their information to remain private, the data broker retaliated against them by freezing their credit and falsely reporting them as identity theft victims. The lawsuit claims […]
Art rock project formed by Foster The People duo pic: David Black Los Angeles duo Peel – better known as the art rock project from Foster The People’s Sean Cimino and Isom Innis – have shared ‘Climax’, the latest preview from their forthcoming debut album Acid Star, Inspired by the 2018 Gaspar Noé movie of the same name, the song […]
When people hear the term “identity management” in an enterprise context, they typically think of apps that help users authenticate who they are on a network in order to access certain services. In a security context, however, human users are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to managing access and making sure […]
Water for People, a nonprofit that aims to improve access to clean water for people whose health is threatened by a lack of it for drinking and sanitation, is the latest organization to have been hit by ransomware criminals. The ransomware-as-a-service gang Medusa listed Water for People on its darknet site Thursday night, threatening to […]
The housing authority in California’s San Bernardino County notified nearly 19,000 people this week that their information was compromised in a June cyberattack. The organization said names and Social Security numbers were leaked after hackers accessed an employee email account on June 19. “Upon discovery, we immediately performed a password reset for the affected account […]