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2021
January 2021
2020
December 2020
A digital pandemic tops off coronavirus woes — December 15, 2020
Google and China duke it out over ‘quantum supremacy’ — December 8, 2020
Facebook’s latest acquisition pushes outside its comfort zone — December 1, 2020
November 2020
1-in-5 Fortune 500 companies still use risky Chinese tech after U.S. ban — November 24, 2020
Silicon Valley loses another tech icon — November 17, 2020
What if Apple’s new Mac chips are trash? — November 10, 2020
The Ledger: Another Ant under China’s boot — November 4, 2020
Why regulators sidelined Ant Financial’s record-setting IPO — November 3, 2020
October 2020
The danger of ‘digital apartheid’ — October 27, 2020
Virtual Apple events just aren’t the same — October 14, 2020
Russia’s ‘Sandworm’ hackers will slither into the sunset — October 10, 2020
Big Tech’s time is up — October 7, 2020
The Ledger: Upstart Aave shows DeFi dreams are for real — October 7, 2020
September 2020
There is no such thing as ‘apolitical culture’ — September 30, 2020
eBay’s pathetic, power-hungry pranksters — September 28, 2020
Is the Düsseldorf cyberattack really the first to result in death? — September 23, 2020
Why I’m caving and finally buying an Apple Watch — September 16, 2020
The Ledger: Is the SushiSwap saga a preview of a new wave of crypto chaos? — September 9, 2020
Amid geopolitical tensions, ‘Mulan’ is a litmus test for loyalties — September 9, 2020
Fortune’s 40 Under 40 honorees in tech defy the pandemic — September 2, 2020
August 2020
U.S. vies for leadership in quantum and A.I. with $1 billion bet — August 26, 2020
Don’t click that Zoom invitation! — August 19, 2020
The Ledger: China is years ahead of the U.S. on digital finance. Here’s why it matters. — August 12, 2020
Forget Netflix. Gaming companies are winning the pandemic — August 12, 2020
What would it be like if the Internet suddenly went dark? — August 5, 2020
July 2020
What getting hacked will cost you ($3.86 million, approximately) — July 29, 2020
It’s getting harder to tell state-sponsored hackers and cybercriminals apart — July 22, 2020
The Ledger: The Twitter hackers’ Bitcoin shell game — July 22, 2020
Hackers blew Twitter ‘god mode’ on shenanigans — July 16, 2020
Should you trust TikTok? — July 15, 2020
WhatsApp leader: You don’t want us eavesdropping on you, right? — July 8, 2020
Demand for stolen credit cards has dropped in the pandemic — July 1, 2020
June 2020
Why Americans are uneasy about COVID-19 contact-tracing — June 24, 2020
The Ledger: Brazil’s central bank refuses to let Facebook front-run it on payments — June 24, 2020
Are contact-tracing apps a scourge or savior? — June 17, 2020
A cyberattack ‘pandemic’ would be devastating—and may be inevitable — June 10, 2020
The most popular police scanner app is donating proceeds to charity — June 3, 2020
May 2020
The tweet that broke the bird’s back — May 27, 2020
The Ledger: Cryptocurrency is coming for social networks — May 27, 2020
Blame dumb mistakes for more and more of data breaches — May 20, 2020
Sidewalk Labs’ Toronto project was dead on arrival — May 13, 2020
How to choose a video chat app? Grade it on privacy — May 6, 2020
April 2020
The Ledger: Where will Bitcoin go after ‘The Halvening’? — April 29, 2020
Where that coronavirus text from ‘a friend in the military’ really comes from — April 23, 2020
A ‘digital ceasefire’ is unrealistic during the pandemic — April 15, 2020
The 5 most common coronavirus scams still circulating — April 8, 2020
Coronavirus scammers are getting taken down by grassroots ‘hackers without borders’ — April 1, 2020
The Ledger: Coronavirus adds fuel to the Digital Dollar debate — April 1, 2020
March 2020
The coronavirus pandemic reveals how prepared the U.S. is for cyber conflict — March 25, 2020
Should the government increase surveillance to help fight the coronavirus? — March 18, 2020
America needs to get its act together, warns cyber commission — March 11, 2020
China’s new, combative response to hacking from the U.S. — March 4, 2020
The Ledger: A little taste of Brainstorm Finance, Fortune’s fintech conference — March 4, 2020
February 2020
Google’s crown is Chrome — February 26, 2020
A Googlopolis grows in Toronto — February 19, 2020
The Iowa caucus debacle is great for America’s disinformation-peddling adversaries — February 5, 2020
January 2020
The Ledger: The biggest change to credit scores in years-and what it means for fintechs — January 29, 2020
You might not ever notice hackers stealing your retirement savings — January 29, 2020
U.N. calls for ‘immediate investigation’ into Jeff Bezos phone hack allegedly involving Saudi Crown Prince — January 22, 2020
The NSA patches up its reputation with a gift to Microsoft — January 15, 2020
Missile Strike vs. Cyberattack: How Iran Retaliates — January 8, 2020
2019
December 2019
The Ledger: Behind the Scenes of Our Deep Dive on Libra — December 18, 2019
You Tell Us: Should People Use Facial Recognition? — December 18, 2019
What Senators Ignore When They Threaten Encryption — December 11, 2019
Why I Opt Out of Facial Recognition — December 4, 2019
Private Equity Firm Silver Lake Got Rich Off Tech. Now It’s Moving Beyond It. — December 3, 2019
November 2019
Prepare to Be Watched Everywhere — November 21, 2019
The Ledger: Should ‘Fintech’ Fear Big Tech’s Push Into Banking? — November 20, 2019
Big Tech Is Coming for Your Most Sensitive Data — November 13, 2019
WhatsApp Hack Shows Why We Don’t Need Encryption ‘Backdoors’ — November 2, 2019
October 2019
Google’s Trust Crises Should Get Everyone Thinking About the Future Powers of Big Tech — October 26, 2019
The Ledger: Google’s ‘Quantum Supremacy’: A Surprising Potential Application…Is Cryptocurrency? — October 23, 2019
Chinese Hacking: The Plane Made from Stolen Tech? — October 19, 2019
The Adverse Effects of Twitter’s ‘Inadvertent’ Advertising — October 12, 2019
America’s Slipping Edge — October 5, 2019
No, Encryption Is Not About to Be ‘Backdoored’ — October 1, 2019
September 2019
Google and Copyright ‘Blackmail’ — September 30, 2019
Demystifying CrowdStrike Conspiracy Theories — September 28, 2019
The Ledger: Bakkt Bitcoin Futures: Awaited, Debated . . . and Deflated? — September 25, 2019
Once Ripe for Taking, Computer Security Market Reveals Winners—and Losers — September 21, 2019
Investors Clamor for Cloudflare IPO, Despite Controversies — September 14, 2019
Hardware Security Keys: A Seatbelt for the Internet? — September 7, 2019
August 2019
Even After Capital One’s Breach, Don’t Doubt the Cloud — August 24, 2019
Silicon Valley’s Smokescreen and the Phoniness of ‘Thought Leadership’ — August 20, 2019
The Ledger: A Cryptocurrency Custody Battle Is A-Brewing — August 19, 2019
Only One Republican Supported That Divisive Election Security Bill. Here’s Why He Voted in Favor — August 17, 2019
The Ledger: China’s Fintech Revolution — August 12, 2019
America Needs Paper-Based Ballots for the 2020 Election — August 10, 2019
Meet the Humble CEO Who Wants to Build the Biggest Cybersecurity Company Ever — August 6, 2019
The Ledger: China Crosses the Renminbi-con — August 5, 2019
After Capital One, Equifax, Marriott, and the Rest, Just Assume Your Data Has Been Hacked — August 3, 2019
July 2019
The Ledger: Here Comes the IRS — July 29, 2019
What Separates the Hacks and the Hack-Nots — July 27, 2019
The Ledger: Financial Data Privacy? Consumers ‘Could Care Less’ — July 22, 2019
Lessons from the Pentagon, Oracle, CrowdStrike, and an Ex-CIA Entrepreneur at Brainstorm Tech 2019 — July 20, 2019
The Ledger: Crypto Mama and the SEC’s “Escape Room” — July 15, 2019
The Ledger: Can Blockchain Build a Better Bank? Experts Weigh In — July 8, 2019
The Ledger: Fintech Trends for 2020— Facebook Project Libra, Amazon, and Millennials — July 1, 2019
June 2019
What’s Missing in Democratic Debates About Russia and Election Security — June 29, 2019
The Ledger: Disrupting the Dollar, Gold vs Bitcoin, Marvelous Montauk — June 24, 2019
The Ledger: Facebook’s Cryptocurrency Ambitions Provoke Heated Debate — June 17, 2019
CrowdStrike IPO: Investors Are Positively CrowdStruck — June 15, 2019
Cryptocurrency, IoT, Scooters? A Zany Plan to Take on Telecom — June 14, 2019
Microsoft’s Unpredictable Rise as a Civic Leader — June 11, 2019
The Ledger: Fintech and Blockchain in Montauk—a Countdown — June 10, 2019
The Cybersecurity Market Is Consolidating — June 8, 2019
The Ledger: The Crypto Rebellion, Mastercard Moxie, As Coinbase Turns — June 3, 2019
Baltimore’s Ransomware Mess Is Its Own Fault — June 1, 2019
May 2019
The Ledger: IPOs to Rival Dotcom Bubble, Facebook ‘GlobalCoin’ Coming Soon, Billion-Dollar Blockchain Buybacks — May 28, 2019
The Ledger: AT&T Blamed for Cryptocurrency Hacks, ‘Game of Thrones’ Meets Crypto, Barry Silbert Talks Bitcoin — May 20, 2019
Breaking Up Facebook ‘Won’t Be Enough’ — May 18, 2019
The Ledger: Fin-Tech in Montauk, Binance Robbery Update, Go Away Fake Satoshi — May 13, 2019
Senior Executives Are Getting Phished More Frequently. Here’s an Urgent Tip!!! — May 13, 2019
The Ledger: Stripe’s Post-GDPR Plan, Facebook’s Crypto, Berkshire Hathaway’s Bitcoin Dis — May 6, 2019
Zuckerberg Needs a Slap, Google I/O vs. Microsoft Build, Bird Rides the Strugglebus — May 6, 2019
And the Winner of Trump’s ‘President’s Cup’ Cyber Contest Is…America — May 5, 2019
April 2019
The Ledger: Bitfinex’s Tether Trouble, Bitcoin Crime, Bakkt Buys a Custodian — April 29, 2019
How to Deal With Marcus Hutchins: No Pardon, But Public Service — April 29, 2019
The Ledger: Binance’s Secret Sauce, Fake Satoshi, Waiting on Bakkt — April 22, 2019
The Ledger: China’s Bitcoin Ban, Crypto Endowments, Arbitrage bots — April 16, 2019
Julian Assange’s Fate Has Nothing to Do With Press Freedom — April 15, 2019
The Ledger: Bitcoin Tops $5000, Elon Musk for Dogecoin CEO, Charles Hoskinson — April 8, 2019
Do Violent Videos Radicalize People? — April 8, 2019
The Ledger: Ripple and JPM, Coinbase Loves Stake, Mining Blues — April 1, 2019
March 2019
Leaky Databases Are a Scourge. MongoDB Is Doing Something About It — March 30, 2019
Fess Up: SEC Goes Easy on Cryptocurrency Companies That Cooperate — March 26, 2019
Denver and West Virginia Deserve Praise for Voting on Blockchain — March 23, 2019
Electronic Voting Systems Are Buggy But Needed — March 16, 2019
The Ledger: Vitalik on Gaming and Ethereum’s Killer App, Mt. Gox CEO Not Guilty, Circle’s Jeremy Allaire — March 18, 2019
The Ledger: A Battle Brews Between Facebook and WeChat, Paxos Gold, Andrew Yang — March 11, 2019
Google ‘Moonshot’ and NSA Toolkit Rise Above the Marketing Deluge at RSA Conference — March 9, 2019
The Ledger: Facebook Should Pay Everyone Cryptocurrency — March 4, 2019
Where Has All the Ransomware Gone? Cybercriminals Prefer ‘Cryptojacking’ — March 2, 2019
Privacy Legislation Is Coming for Big Tech, Facebook Keeps Spying, Tesla Makes Cuts — March 1, 2019
February 2019
Foldable Phones at Mobile World Congress, Huawei’s Global Blitz, SEC vs. Elon Musk Redux — February 26, 2019
The Ledger: Bitcoin in Venezuela, Exit Scams, Abra — February 25, 2019
Charting the Rise of ‘Surveillance Capitalism’ — February 23, 2019
The Ledger: JPM Coin Isn’t a Cryptocurrency, Mt. Gox Relaunch?, Bitcoin Breaks $4,000 — February 19, 2019
IBM CEO Ginni Rometty Says Company ‘Never Overpromised’ on Watson A.I. — February 14, 2019
Why We Can’t Have Nice Trains — February 13, 2019
The Ledger: The Problem With Cryptocurrency Custody — February 12, 2019
Investigating Jeff Bezos’ Sexts, Huawei FBI Sting, Facebook’s Outspoken ex-Security Chief — February 9, 2019
The Ledger: Stock Exchange Monopolies, Kraken in the Money, Big Daddy — February 4, 2019
Death Endangers Cryptocurrency Treasures: Plan Your Estate — February 2, 2019
January 2019
The Ledger: Crypto vs. Cannabis, Blockchain and Jamie Dimon in Davos, Facebook Coin — January 28, 2019
Who Should Govern Your Data? Inside the Privacy Debate in Davos — January 26, 2019
Challenging Facebook’s ‘#10YearChallenge’ — January 23, 2019
2018 Was the Year of the ‘Stablecoin.’ Here’s What to Expect in 2019 — January 14, 2019
Phones Are the World’s Ablest Spies — January 12, 2019
Beware Big Tech’s Data Privacy Doublespeak — January 5, 2019
2018
December 2018
The Ledger: Waiting for Apple’s Blockchain, the Crypto Czar and More Basis Fallout — December 17, 2018
Quantum Computers Threaten the Web’s Security. We Must Take Action Now. — December 15, 2018
The Ledger: New York’s Final BitLicense Answer, Hardware Wallet Reviews, Crypto Art — December 11, 2018
Marriott Says It Will Pay for Replacement Passports After Data Breach. Here’s Why That’s Likely Baloney. — December 8, 2019
The Ledger: Billionaire Investor Jim Breyer Warns of ‘Nuclear Winter’ for Cryptocurrency. Here’s Why He Remains Unfazed. — December 3, 2018
November 2018
The Ledger: Crypto Collapse, TransferWise, Beyond Market Cap — November 19, 2018
What BlackBerry’s Acquisition of Cylance Means for the Cybersecurity Business — November 17, 2018
The Ledger: Bitcoin Predictions, Tim Draper, Elon Musk Crypto Hijackers, Stellar Lumens Giveaway — November 13, 2018
Coinbase Loves Hackers, Facebook Election Win, White House Video Fake Out — November 11, 2018
The Ledger: Crypto Consolidation, St. Vitalik, Interest Rates Bite Bitcoin — November 5, 2018
A CEO-Felling Privacy Bill, Facebook Ad Scandals, Chinese Spy Charges — November 3, 2018
October 2018
The Ledger: Crypto’s ‘iPhone Moment,’ ‘Stablecoin’ Mania, Bitcoin in Politics — October 30, 2018
Reader Reactions to Facebook’s ‘War Room’ — October 27, 2018
The Ledger: A.I. Meets Blockchain, Dfinity, Shorting Ethereum — October 23, 2018
Facebook’s ‘War Room’ Is a Marketing Ploy — October 20, 2018
The Ledger: ‘Dr. Doom’ Battles the Crypto Robots — October 15, 2018
Doubts Swirl Around Bloomberg’s China Chip Hack Report — October 14, 2018
The Ledger: Soulja Boy’s ‘Bitcoin’ Millions, PwC Backs a Stablecoin, Tether Sinks Below $1 — October 8, 2018
China’s Chip Hack, Amazon and Apple’s Denials, Google’s Trust Reversal — October 7, 2018
The Ledger: Why Crypto’s Newest Venture Capitalist Bet Millions on an Ethereum ‘Stablecoin’ — October 1, 2018
September 2018
Facebook Hack, Spotify Data Prying, China Election Meddling — September 29, 2018
Free Credit Freezes, Google Gmail Scanning, Bot Baddies Help FBI — September 22, 2018
The Ledger: New York’s Power-Trip, XRP Goes on a Run & Crypto Art in Berlin — September 22, 2018
Alibaba’s Jack Ma Says U.S.-China Trade War Could Last 20 Years. Here’s Why America’s Tech Industry Should Worry. — September 19, 2018
The Ledger: Ethereum and Litecoins’ Round Trip, Bitcoin Trading at Citi and Morgan Stanley, New Crypto Crackdowns — September 17, 2018
Massachusetts Gas Fires, Credit Freezes, Snowden Reassessment — September 15, 2018
North Korean Hacker Indicted, JPMorgan Robber Cuffed, Equifax Anniversary — September 9, 2018
The Ledger: Goldman’s Bitcoin Fake-Out, Elon Musk High on Ethereum, Tezos Gets Gaming — September 9, 2018
The Ledger: Revenge of the Bitcoin Believers — September 1, 2018
August 2018
Blackmail Scam Uses Passwords to Scare People into Paying Bitcoin. Don’t Fall for It. — August 25, 2018
The Ledger: Tesla Tokenization, Bitcoin ETFs vs. the SEC, Indiegogo — August 25, 2018
The Ledger: Where Nickels Fetch Millions: Inside a Rare Coin Shop — August 18, 2018
Reactions to InfoWars and Big Tech’s Free Speech Quandary — August 18, 2018
The War on InfoWars — August 11, 2018
The Ledger: Blockchain for Identity, Bitcoin vs Turkey, NYSE and Crypto — August 11, 2018
Ahead of Midterm Elections, U.S. Officials Warn of Russia While Trump Prevaricates — August 4, 2018
The Ledger: Bitcoin Meets NYSE, CryptoKitties’ Future, Bitmain’s $1B Profit, a McDonald’s Stablecoin? — August 4, 2018
July 2018
Tenable IPO vs. Facebook’s Flop: Identifying a Stock Market Trend — July 28, 2018
The Ledger: Why Fortune Created ‘The Ledger 40 Under 40’ List — July 28, 2018
The Ledger: Crypto from the Mountains to the Coast — July 21, 2018
Introducing Fortune Brainstorm Finance — July 21, 2018
The Ledger: Satoshi Wannabes, Bitcoin’s Role in Russian Election Interference, Vitalik Clapping — July 16, 2018
Red Flags Flap Before U.S.-Russia Meeting — July 14, 2018
June 2018
How Science Could Have Saved Reality Winner — June 30, 2018
The Ledger: Facebook’s Crypto Ad Ban Hurt Competition. Regulators Should Scrutinize It. — June 30, 2018
China Hack Backs, Laptop Cam Spying, Elon Musk’s Saboteur — June 23, 2018
The Ledger: Coinbase, XRP and the SEC, Blockchain Bubble Gum, Mt. Gox to Bithumb Hacks — June 22, 2018
When Ireland Rebooted Civilization — June 18, 2018
The Ledger: Ethereum Cofounder on SEC Blessing, Tether’s Bitcoin Domination, Ripple vs. Stellar Lumens — June 15, 2018
It Is Mind-Bogglingly Easy to Rope Apple’s Siri into Phishing Scams — June 9, 2018
The Ledger: Bitcoin Billionaires, R3’s Woes, and ‘Silicon Valley’ Blockchain Advisors — June 8, 2018
What to Expect of Google and Softbank Star Nikesh Arora, Palo Alto Network’s New CEO — June 4, 2018
The Ledger: Free Money in the Age of Airdrops — June 1, 2018
May 2018
We’ve Updated Our Privacy Polic—Kidding! — May 26, 2018
The Ledger: Is New York’s BitLicense an ‘Absolute Failure?’ — May 25, 2018
Would You Buy Cybersecurity From a Witch Doctor? — May 19, 2018
The Ledger: Blockchain Week: When Crypto Took New York City by Storm — May 18, 2018
As Blockchain Week Kicks Off, Remember The DAO — May 12, 2018
The Ledger: Who’s the Sucker at the Token Table? — May 11, 2018
What Readers Had to Say About My Rejection of DNA Testing — May 5, 2018
The Ledger: Welcome to The Ledger Newsletter — May 4, 2018
April 2018
Why I Refuse DNA Testing — April 28, 2018
How Facebook and GDPR Propelled an Underdog to Victory at RSA Conference — April 21, 2018
Term Sheet: Crypto is the new counterculture — April 18, 2018
Term Sheet: Q&A with Trident Capital’s first female partner — April 17, 2018
Meet Vero, a Lebanese Billionaire’s Anti-Facebook — April 14, 2018
Big Tech’s Cryptocurrency Conspiracy — April 7, 2018
March 2018
Facebook Put ‘Shotgun’ in My Food-Related Ad Interests. Why? — March 31, 2018
The Case For and Against #DeleteFacebook — March 24, 2018
As Dropbox Goes Public, Here’s What Sets the Tech Giant Apart — March 23, 2018
Scammers Want to Steal Your Uber Account — March 22, 2018
After Thrashing the News Business, Google Seeks to Make Amends — March 21, 2018
Facebook, Uber, and Tronc Have a Terrible Day in Techland — March 20, 2018
Facebook’s Biggest Problem? Its Arrogance — March 19, 2018
Russia’s Power Plant Hacks, Zscaler IPO, Equifax Insider Trading — March 17, 2018
Chipmaker Soap Opera, Equifax Credit Freezes, Blockchain Definitions — March 10, 2018
JPMorgan’s Bitcoin Jitters, Goldman Sachs’ Crypto Bet, Uber Cofounder’s Blue-Sky Ambition — March 3, 2018
February 2018
New SEC Cyber Guidelines, Tesla’s Crypto Cloud, WhatsApp’s Money — February 24, 2018
Can Machines Save Us From the the Machines? — February 17, 2018
Facebook, Google, and Amazon’s Dark Sides — February 16, 2018
Bitcoin and Bug Bounties on the Hill, Apple and Cisco’s Cyber Deal, iPhone Leak — February 10, 2018
The Sound of a Cyber Bubble Popping — February 3, 2018
January 2018
Bitcoin and Blockchains in Davos, Starbucks Coin, Nuclear Hacks — January 27, 2018
Bitcoin Ups and Downs, Securing ‘Star Wars’, TIME’s New Cyber Book — January 13, 2018
Meltdown and Spectre Security Attacks Haunt Chip Industry — January 4, 2018
2017
December 2017
"Bitcoin's Big Crash, North Korean Ransomware, Experian Data Leak" — December 23, 2017
"Phishing for Bitcoin" (Guest: Jeff John Roberts) — December 16, 2017
"How Secure Is Bitcoin Really?" (Guest: Jeff John Roberts) — December 9, 2017
"Inside the Bitcoin $10,000 Party, Apple's Bungled Patch, Uber Security Exodus" — December 2, 2017
November 2017
"Are the Feds Waging an Out-of-Sight Fight with Apple on Encryption?" (Guest: Jeff John Roberts) — November 18, 2017
Ethereum's frozen funds | "Ethereum's frozen funds, YouTube kid trauma, backstage at Web Summit" — November 11, 2017
Kaspersky's secret ubiquity | "Kaspersky Struck References to 67 'Tech Partners' Like Amazon and Microsoft from Website" — November 4, 2017
October 2017
Uncle Sam Tries to Hire Hackers (Guest: Jeff John Roberts) — October 28, 2017
Tanium CEO's Refreshingly Honest Take on the State of Internet Security | "Tanium Converge, California Fires, Equifax Credit Breach" — October 21, 2017
"A Nobel-Winning Solution to Cybersecurity" (Guest: Jeff John Roberts) — October 14, 2017
"Why the U.S. Has Knives Out for Kaspersky Labs" — October 7, 2017
September 2017
"Can Blockchain Prevent the Next Equifax? Not So Fast." (Guest: Jeff John Roberts) — September 30, 2017
A Wolf in CCleaner's Clothing | "SEC Breached, Billionaires Bash Bitcoin, Facebook Shares Russia Ads" — September 24, 2017
"Why Equifax Executives Will Get Away With the Worst Data Breach in History" (Guest: Jeff John Roberts) — September 16, 2017
"Equifax hacks, Hurricane Irma Scams, Power Grid Blackouts" — September 9, 2017
August 2017
No honor in cyber land | "Why the Honor Code Among Hackers Has Broken Down" (Guest: Jeff John Roberts) — August 26, 2017
"40 Under 40 Security Picks, FBI Dents Kaspersky, HBO Leaks" — August 19, 2017
Korean Missile Crisis | "North Korean Missile Crisis, HBO Hacks, Bitcoin Cash Clash" — August 12, 2017
What to make of the hacker Hutchins | "Marcus Hutchins: Good Guy or Bad Guy?" (Guest: Jeff John Roberts) — August 5, 2017
July 2017
Hi, I'd like to spy on you on LinkedIn | "Be Careful With Whom You Connect on Social Media" — July 29, 2017
"Cyber service: A New Form of Public Participation" (Guest: Jeff John Roberts) — July 22, 2017
Kaspersky and the Kremlin | "Russian Cyber Firm Kaspersky Aches Amid Strained U.S. Relations" — July 15, 2017
"Trump, hacking, and Russia's rabbit holes" (Guest: Jeff John Roberts) — July 8, 2017
June 2017
Google's war on bugs | "Google's Elite Project Zero Hackers Teach Business a Lesson" — June 24, 2017
"Russia is still the story" (Guest: Jeff John Roberts) — June 17, 2017
Google's war on terror | "How Alphabet's Jigsaw Plans to Counter ISIS Recruitment" — June 10, 2017
"By the same token..." / "Speculators Are Driving a Cryptocoin Bubble" — June 3, 2017
May 2017
"Blockchain Offers Hope for the Broken Internet" (Guest: Jeff John Roberts) — May 27, 2017
"The Financial Tech Revolution Will Be Tokenized" — May 20, 2017
"Every Company Is a Cyber Company Now" (Guest: Jeff John Roberts) — May 13, 2017
"How to Stop the Next Google Docs Freakout" (Guest: Jeff John Roberts) — May 6, 2017
April 2017
Verizon dishes on data breaches — April 29, 2017
Cyber firms behaving badly | "Tanium and Cylance Have a Bad Week" (Guest: Jeff John Roberts) — April 22, 2017
Shadow Bonkers | "Microsoft's Quiet Patching of Shadow Brokers' NSA Hacks Signals Policy Win" — April 15, 2017
The scary spectre of cyber war | "Russia U.S. Conflict in Syria Raises Spectre of Cyber War" (Guest: Jeff John Roberts) — April 8, 2017
FBI Twitter egg, cracked | "How a Reporter Outed Undercover Accounts Likely Belonging to FBI Boss James Comey" — April 1, 2017
March 2017
"Comcast has Google envy" — March 25, 2017
The trouble with 'state-sponsored actors' | "Why the U.S. Gave Russia Too Much Credit for the Yahoo Hacks" (Guest: Jeff John Roberts) — March 18, 2017
Smile! You're on WikiLeaks | "The Worst and Best parts of WikiLeaks' CIA Leak" — March 11, 2017
"Uber growth hacks the government" (Guest: Jeff John Roberts) — March 4, 2017
February 2017
Raising a glass to the codebreakers | "RSA 2017 and Google: Celebrating Cryptography" — February 25, 2017
Winners and Losers at the RSA Cybersecurity Ball (Guest: Jeff John Roberts) — February 18, 2017
What to expect at RSA 2017 | "Expect AI Buzz at the 2017 RSA Security Conference" — February 11, 2017
Are big cyber companies better? | "Cybersecurity: Are Big Companies Superior to Startups?" (Guest: Jeff John Roberts) — February 4, 2017
January 2017
All the President's phones | "President Donald Trump's Closest Companion Could Easily Become a Spy" — January 28, 2017
Power, protests, and the President's new phone | "President Trump's New Phone and Cybersecurity Standards" (Guest: Jeff John Roberts) — January 21, 2017
Rudy (Giuliani) can't fail | "What to Make of Rudy Giuliani's Cybersecurity Role" — January 14, 2017
Should the government pay more for cyber talent? (Guest: Jeff John Roberts) — January 7, 2017
2016
December 2016
A lesson from 'Star Wars' | "How the Galactic Empire Fails at Cybersecurity in 'Star Wars'" — December 17, 2016
Is it time for America to hack back? (Guest: Jeff John Roberts) — December 10, 2016
Ignore that iPhone spam | "Apple iPhone: Ignore That 'Black Friday' Calendar Invite Spam" — December 3, 2016
November 2016
One phish, two phish, they phish, you phish | "Phishing Is Top Hacking Threat Says Homeland Security Chief" (Guest: Jeff John Roberts) — November 19, 2016
Trump and 'The Cyber' | "Why Donald Trump's Win Establishes a Worrisome Cyber Precedent" — November 12, 2016
God protects idiots, children, and the United States of America (Guest: Jeff John Roberts) — November 5, 2016
October 2016
Money masquerade | "Zcash: Why People Are Hyping the Bitcoin-Derived Cryptocurrency" — October 29, 2016
Who to Blame for the Attack on the Internet | "The Dyn Attack on the Internet and Who to Blame for It" (Guest: Jeff John Roberts) — October 22, 2016
The Moscow menace — October 15, 2016
The Fog of Cyber War (Guest: Jeff John Roberts) — October 8, 2016
Forecasting Yahoo's foggy fate | "Yahoo Breach: Forecasting the Verizon Deal's Fate" — October 1, 2016
September 2016
Regulators are coming with a cyber stick | "Look Out Companies, Here Come the Cyber Regulators" (Guest: Jeff John Roberts) — September 24, 2016
Snowden on trial | "Edward Snowden's Legacy Is on Trial" — September 17, 2016
The Ethics of Short Selling Cyber Victims (Guest: Jeff John Roberts) — September 10, 2016
Hillary and the Missing BlackBerries (Guest: Jeff John Roberts) — September 3, 2016
August 2016
Governments gone wild (Guest: Jeff John Roberts) — August 27, 2016
When government secrets keep you safe — August 20, 2016
Volkswagen, voting machines, and hype over hacking (Guest: Jeff John Roberts) — August 13, 2016
Apple bounties, DARPA bots, and 'Hackers for Hillary' | "Here's What You Missed at Black Hat and Defcon 2016" — August 6, 2016
July 2016
Trump invites Russia | "Adversaries and Opportunists Are Hacking the 2016 Presidential Election" — July 30, 2016
Apple exposed - the value of bug bounties (Guest: Jeff John Roberts) — July 23, 2016
Blockchains and mountain ranges | "Blockchain—and Pokémon—Hope and Hype at Fortune Brainstorm Tech" — July 16, 2016
Bitcoin halves and have-nots | "Bitcoin Price Drops 5% Amid 'Halving'" — July 9, 2016
Symantec's security quicksand | "'Security' Software Wrecking Your Security Is the Ultimate Irony" — July 2, 2016
June 2016
China's cyber spies retrench | "China's Cyber Spying on the U.S. Has Drastically Changed" — June 25, 2016
Palantir pillaged? | "Palantir Hacked? Here's the Story's Real Takeaway" — June 18, 2016
Twitter takeovers | "Dear Internet, Bolster Your Passwords. Here's How." — June 11, 2016
Dropbox, dropped ball | "Dropbox's Data Breach Scare Doesn't Check Out" — June 4, 2016
May 2016
NSA's ode to the Internet | "Read This Spectacularly Zany Guide to the Internet" — May 28, 2016
You say Goog-bye. I say Allo. | "Here's Why Privacy Savants Are Blasting Google Allo" — May 21, 2016
The risk equation | "How to Calculate Cyber Risk in 1 Simple Equation" — May 14, 2016
April 2016
Inside AT&T's global brain | "Where AT&T Keeps an Eye on Its Ginormous Data-Shuttling Network" — April 30, 2016
Nothing is something | "So Did the FBI Find Anything on that San Bernardino Shooter's iPhone?" — April 23, 2016
Cyberattacks on tax payers | "Irate Over Taxes? IRS Progress on Cybersecurity Will Only Make You Angrier" — April 16, 2016
Panamania | "The Panama Papers Search Tool Began as an Academic Skunkworks Project" — April 9, 2016
Super Hacker Bros. | "This 'Super Mario World' Hacker Wins" — April 2, 2016
March 2016
In memoriam | "In Apple vs. FBI, Remember the Memory Chip" — March 26, 2016
"C" is for cookie—and crypto | "How to Pass the Time Until the Apple vs. FBI Courtroom Showdown" — March 19, 2016
Unbolting vaults | "Why the iPhone the FBI Wants to Crack Likely Has No Data" — March 12, 2016
Recapping RSA | "RSA Conference 2016: Recap" — March 5, 2016
February 2016
Unscrambling Apple's case | "Toward Resolving Apple's FBI Dispute" — February 27, 2016
Apple, the DOJ, and the Battle Over Encryption (Guest: Jonathan Vanian) — February 20, 2016
Big Blue's red team | "What IBM Security Group Has Learned from Cybercriminals" — February 13, 2016
Securing Super Bowl tickets — February 6, 2016
January 2016
The Tao of NSA | "NSA Top Hacker Rob Joyce Dishes on Cyber Attack and Defense" — January 30, 2016
NSA's encoded intent | "No, NSA Has Not Changed Stance on Encryption" — January 23, 2016
El Capture | "Sean Penn, El Chapo, and a Tale of Operational Security" — January 16, 2016
When capitals collide | "Washington and Silicon Valley Session on ISIS and Social Media Marked by Surprising Civility" — January 9, 2016
2015
December 2015
Teaching kids security (Guest: Stacy Higginbotham) — December 19, 2015
Bitcon | "Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto, and the Enduring Mysteries of Authorship" — December 12, 2015
That hotline bling | "China and the U.S. Are an Unlikely Duo to Combat Cybercrime" — December 5, 2015
November 2015
Step one, step two | "Before Shopping Online This Cyber Monday, Secure Your Personal Accounts. Here's How." — November 28, 2015
Anonymous vs. ISIS | "Let's Talk About Anonymous Versus ISIS" — November 21, 2015
City of love | "Personal Privacy Versus State Preservation in the Aftermath of the Paris Attacks" — November 14, 2015
Shaken, not stirred | "A James Bond fanboy's 'Spectre' review" — November 7, 2015
October 2015
Somewhere beneath the sea | "What's the likelihood of a nightmarish subsea Internet cable attack?" — October 31, 2015
Whaddaya say, RSA? ["Threat Sheet" becomes "Cyber Saturday"] — October 24, 2015
You can ring my Dell | "What cybersecurity means to the Dell-EMC mega-deal" — October 17, 2015
Heavy Lyfting | "Did Lyft CTO Chris Lambert hack Uber? Let's have the evidence" — October 10, 2015
Happy cybersecurity (breach) awareness month — October 3, 2015
September 2015
Adblockalypse Now — September 19, 2015
No means no — September 12, 2015
Know your network — September 5, 2015
August 2015
"Uber hires Jeep hacker security pros" — August 29, 2015
Indiscreet connections — August 22, 2015
Martyr or Maurauder? — August 15, 2015
Hackers, start your engines — August 8, 2015
Android's Faustian deal — August 1, 2015
July 2015
Baby, you can hack my car — July 25, 2015
Rocket launchers. Land mines. Software exploits? — July 18, 2015