I spent the morning reading as many articles as I could find about Darren Rainey, a 50-year-old, Black, poor and mentally ill man from Florida who died in prison in 2012. The Miami Herald, with…
It is accurate to say that the holiday dedicated to Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is one that especially lifts up the lives, stories and realities of Black people and communities in our nation.…
I’m not talking about the efforts that the studios make to ensure that Leonardo DiCaprio wins the Best Actor award or someone you’ve never heard of wins for Best Costume Design. I’m talking about…
A group known as New World Hacking launched a distributed denial of service (DDOS) attack against the BBC and Donald Trump’s campaign website this week. The Trump site was down for about an hour, while…
I wrote earlier this week about the possibility that a power outage in the Ukraine on December 23 had been caused by malware. It turns out that the outage was indeed caused by a cyber…
Microsoft’s operating systems offer two kinds of encryption: device encryption, which encrypts an entire disk, and Bitlocker, which offers the user a chance to configure how the encryption should be done and where it should…
A new piece of malware that encrypts a victim’s files until the victim pays a ransom to decrypt them has surfaced. This new threat is called Ransom32, and it was written in Javascript, a cross-platform language…
A power outage in the Ukraine appears to have been caused by a cyber attack. Security researchers are currently investigating the incident, which occurred in the eastern part of the country on December 23. It is…
Authentication is an essential component of protecting critical resources. It comes in two forms. Data-origin authentication aims to assert that data has arrived intact from its expected source. Peer-entity authentication seeks to assert that the…
A number of presidential candidates have tried to make the case that the 2016 election is a watershed election, one that will define American identity and purpose for years to come. (Of course, what…