The Singularity. Artificial Intelligence. Self-aware, self-actuating, and self-learning robots. What will our future be like when the machines become self-aware? Will it be the like the T-1000 from Terminator? Or more like Johnny 5 from Short Circuit? Or Andrew from Bicentennial Man? Here is a run-down of four different versions of our electronic and digital future.
A recent book by Martin Ford, Rise of Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future, examines a world in the all ...
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If you are in high school (or junior high) or college, attracted to technology, and looking for a career with a future, then you should give serious consideration to the field of Cybersecurity. A recent press release from 
Last week we took an in depth look at social engineering, and looked a phone and email examples in depth.
Here’s a provocative statement: If you could just prevent your staff for clicking on links or opening attachments in phishing emails, 95% of your cybersecurity problems would be prevented.
Your phone rings. The caller identifies themselves as someone from a “tech support” company. Your computer has problems, he says, and he called to help you fix them. You agree to pay some sort of fee. You help them set up remote access to your computer. And now you have been hacked and helped them do it.
This should really be called “anti-social” engineering. A good definition is “social engineering is a non-technical method of intrusion hackers use that relies heavily on human interaction and often involves tricking people into breaking normal security procedures. It is one of the greatest threats that organizations today encounter.”
There is a small company in the Czech Republic called 
Monday we looked at issues with the business class routers at Juniper Networks and Cisco Systems. Today we are going to look at an exploit affecting the Ubiquiti brand of cable modems.