by Brian Barrett | May 24, 2020 | News
The general imperative of any subscription service is to wring a monthly payment out of you from now until the apocalypse. That’s the whole game. It’s why there are entire services and advice columns devoted to helping you cancel. The business model gets an assist...
by Brian Barrett | May 23, 2020 | News
The Covid-19 pandemic has provided boundless opportunities for scammers since January at least. But a group of fraudsters known as Scattered Canary has reached new depths, ripping off state unemployment systems for millions of dollars just as funds are running...
by Brian Barrett | May 18, 2020 | News
“There’s been a proliferation of iOS vulnerabilities recently,” says Johns Hopkins University cryptographer Matthew Green. “There was a brief period around 2015 when Apple’s security outpaced the commercially available exploit market, and that period seems...
by Brian Barrett | May 17, 2020 | News
And while bedtime gets much of the focus when it comes to sleep problems, a morning without routine—there’s no office to report to, after all—can be just as detrimental. “A lot of people don’t realize that the wake-up time and getting out of bed and exposure to light...
by Brian Barrett | May 16, 2020 | News
We’ll get to the rest of this week’s security news in just a second, but before all that you need to carve out a little chunk of your day to read WIRED senior writer Andy Greenberg’s profile of Marcus Hutchins, the hacker who stopped the berserking...
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