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May 18, 2023Ravi LakshmananCyber ​​Crime / Payment Security An American has pleaded guilty in a Missouri court to operating a darknet card site and selling financial information to tens of thousands of victims across the country. Michael D. Mihaloaka Dale…

For the past decade Seattle has been growing—fast. Between 2010 and 2020 its population swelled by almost a quarter. Growth is generally good for cities, but it is often accompanied by a dreaded problem: traffic. Yet Seattle managed to avert…

May 18, 2023Ravi LakshmananNetwork security/vulnerability Cisco has released updates that address nine security flaws present in Small Business Series switches. These flaws can be exploited by an unauthenticated, remote attacker to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service…

In March, when President Biden approved the Willow Project, ConocoPhillips’ $8 billion plan to extract 600 million barrels of oil from federal land in Alaska, it was long asleep of my childhood. It brought back a memory, a memory of…

Scott Shapiro wants to teach the world how to hack. An expert in legal philosophy and founding director of the Yale Institute of Cybersecurity, his day-to-day work teaches Yale law students how the online world works and how to keep…

A solar-powered balloon launched into Earth’s stratosphere has recorded a series of mysterious rumbling sounds that scientists have been unable to pinpoint their origins. This noise is known as infrasound because it is detected by special equipment 70,000 feet above…

I come from a family with dangerous knees. His 79-year-old father has had two total knee replacements, and his sister, at 54, also needs revision surgery. My left knee hurts when I walk downstairs and clicks when I bend it.…

A cute new photo courtesy of the Mars rover Curiosity shows a miniature book-shaped rock located in the soil of Gale Crater. Its shape is the result of the interaction of wind, water, and the human brain. Many of the…

Octopuses can change color to match their surroundings Nikos Stavrinidis/500px/Getty Images Inks that change color when exposed to light, much like octopuses change color to match their surroundings, may one day be used for automatic camouflage. Most color-changing inks and…

Personal information is used for songs, and banks require social media sites to pay out if users get scammed. All this and much more is covered in the latest edition of the Smashing Security podcast by computer security veterans Graham…