I recently saw a Facebook friend decry the ubiquitous end-of-year cards Facebook had created for each of its users, the ones that allow people to share the highlights of their year in the style of an…
A hacker group known as Lizard Squad made a lot of kids unhappy this Christmas by shutting down two popular video game networks, Microsoft’s Xbox Live and Sony’s Playstation Network. Starting on Christmas eve, core…
This has been an important week for cyber security. As one colleague suggested to me, we may look back on this week as the time when our government finally started to take the constant cyber…
No doubt, many of you have already seen this video. After all, it is four years old, and it has over 12 million views on YouTube. I saw it for the very first time right…
A laptop containing data on 2,800 patients at Northwestern Memorial Health Care was stolen this week. According to a report, the laptop was password-protected but not encrypted. Put simply, that means that 2,800 student records are…
The Sony hacking scandal in the wake of the comedy The Interview is alarming, not because it has caused the demise of a single movie, but because it suggests that, unless we get a dose of…
During Computer Science Education Week, nearly 75 million people around the globe spent an hour of their time learning how to write computer code. Some wrote a line or two, while some wrote tens or…
The “Hour of Code” is a nationwide initiative sponsored by Computer Science Education Week and code.org to introduce millions of people to computer science by introducing them to the art and science of writing computer code.…
Verizon recently released its 2014 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report, which presents results from an analysis of over 63,000 cyber security incidents that have occurred during the past ten years. Using tools from the rapidly expanding field of Data Science,…
Orwell keeps getting more and more brilliant. A friend of mine asked for some advice for escaping what he referred to as “Google’s all-seeing eye.” He explained that he installed Firefox and added an extension…