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Jeff Chiu / AP The Internet of Things Needs a Code of Ethics
Technology is evolving faster than the legal and moral frameworks needed to manage it.
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Helen King / Getty Hackers Get Back to the Basics
As the costs of complex cyberattacks increase, old-school email tricks are coming back in style.
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Fjola Dogg Thorvalds / Getty A Trick That Hides Censored Websites Inside Cat Videos
The technique uses popular sites as camouflage for banned ones.
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Jeff Chiu / AP Chatbots Have Entered the Uncanny Valley
When virtual assistants almost pass as human, they only seem more robotic.
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When an In-Flight Dispute Turns Into an FBI Interview
Last week, I wrote about some of the reasons airlines can get away with bad customer service. One extreme example…
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Norm Hall / Getty The Dark Side of Slack’s New Emoji Statuses
The cutesy feature could pressure employees into sharing their every move—both on and off the clock.
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Nam Y. Huh / AP Why Airlines Can Get Away With Bad Customer Service
As much as other types of companies might want to ignore their lowest-margin patrons, most don’t have that luxury.
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Julie Jacobson / AP The Steady Rise of Digital Border Searches
At the current rate, customs agents are on track to increase inspections of travelers’ electronic devices by a third this year.
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Fabrizio Bensch / Reuters An Algorithm That Hides Your Online Tracks With Random Footsteps
Can “polluting” browsing history with fake traffic make it harder for ISPs to spy on you?
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Drew Angerer / Getty When Apps Secretly Team Up to Steal Your Data
An analysis of the top 100,000 Android apps found tens of thousands of pairings that leak sensitive data.
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David Gray / Reuters Avenging a One-Star Review With Digital Sabotage
A dispute over a garage-door opener shows just how much control manufacturers have over your internet-connected things.
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Jim Urquhart / Reuters CSI: Walmart
Some of the best digital-forensics labs don't belong to the police—they're run by banks, tech companies, and retailers.
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Mario Laporta / AFP / Getty Encryption Won’t Stop Your Internet Provider From Spying on You
Data patterns alone can be enough to give away what video you’re watching on YouTube.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Is Trump Still Tweeting From His Unsecured Android Phone?
If so, he’s extremely vulnerable to being hacked.
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Michael Dalder / Reuters When Fingerprints Are as Easy to Steal as Passwords
As hackers learn to imitate the body's unique features, scientists might turn to brainwaves and genomics to verify people's identities.
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Dado Ruvic / Reuters How the Rise of Electronics Has Made Smuggling Bombs Easier
New restrictions on flights from the Middle East reflect how just about anything with power can be turned into an explosive.
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Arnd Wiegmann / Reuters Abu Dhabi to Los Angeles: 17 Hours Without a Laptop
DHS has banned carry-on devices larger than a smartphone on flights from 10 airports across the Middle East.
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Kim Kulish / Corbis / Getty Hacking Tools Get Peer Reviewed, Too
A government-led effort paves the way for data extracted from electronic devices to be accepted as evidence in court.
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Susan Walsh / AP Trump's Cyber Skepticism Hasn't Stopped Charges Against Foreign Hackers
The Justice Department has indicted four Russians for their roles in a cyberattack on Yahoo that compromised half a billion user accounts.
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Lucas Jackson / Reuters What Happens If a Nuclear Bomb Goes Off in Manhattan?
A computer model is in the works to simulate how New Yorkers would respond in the the first 30 days after a nuclear attack.
