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US Military’s Social Media Accounts Hacked The US military command’s Twitter and YouTube accounts were hacked recently. Though the episode essentially amounted to little more than an annoyance, it should lead to an investigation into whether there are any more vulnerabilities in the administration's online accounts and profiles. |
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With More Technology Comes More Malware As technology has become more embedded within our lives, so have the attempts to infect and harm our use of that technology. In the past two years, more malware has been reported and detected than the combined yield of the last ten years. Read on for some alarming stats. |
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MIT Proposes to Simplify Web Programming with Ur/Web Tag this as an upcoming technology development to watch. A researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has developed a new open source programming language called Ur/Web that proposes to “take the grunt work out of Web development,” as well as make web applications more secure. |
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You Won't Get Hacked with Help of New USB Device Companies just keep getting hacked. Millions of users' data have been comprised in the last few years, so up-and-coming developer Webcloak is introducing a product that will let anyone browse the Internet “with no risk of viruses, data, or identity theft.” |
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The Privacy Predicament with the Internet of Things The advent of the Internet of Things means that more and more devices, gadgets, and appliances are becoming connected. In 2015, it is estimated that roughly 5 billion smart devices will be in operation. While this is exciting for some, for others it's an alarm that the IoT needs privacy regulation. |
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Software Bugs We Don’t Want to See Repeated in 2015—or Ever Again Security breaches happen, from Target to Sony, but sometimes it’s not malicious hackers causing pain points for consumers, society, and companies. Occasionally, bugs in the software are to blame. Here is a look at some of the more infamous software bugs that we hope don’t get repeated in 2015. |
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FIDO Alliance Brings Password-less Online Authentication The FIDO (Fast IDentity Online) Alliance, an industry consortium for delivering standards for simpler, stronger authentication, has released final 1.0 specifications for an open standard to replace commonly used single factor username and password logins. |
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Where Can My Teen Learn to Code? The 2014 Google Code-in online contest introduces students ages thirteen to seventeen to open source development. Open from December 1, 2014, to January 19, 2015, students can pick tasks created by twelve open source organizations and work on a wide range of projects and tasks. |
