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Given all the reported breaches Yahoo has reluctantly publicized, not a small number of analysts and pundits were surprised that Verizon was still in discussions to purchase the beleaguered Internet company. Even more surprising was the amount of money being offered for what many see as a dying brand. It seems Yahoo can’t get sold

Let’s face it – regardless of the amount of money and time spent, technology is going to break. You could be the world’s foremost technology expert, or the richest business tycoon and it won’t mean one iota in the face of technology failure. For the most part, it will always be unpredictable, and will always

While it may seem like everyone on the internet is out to get you, not all of them are pursuing malicious results. Not all heroes wear capes, and in the case of “white-hat” hackers  they will often accomplish their goals in the same way as their more malicious “black-hat” counterparts: by exploiting security loopholes and

I couldn’t tell you how long hotels have been using keycards for locks instead of old-fashioned mechanical keys – at least two decades or more, and they’ve probably been using computer-encoded keycards for at least the past ten years. There’s at least one hotel waxing nostalgic for the glory days after suffering a ransomware attack

President Trump’s pick for FCC chair has internet activists in full-on Ned-Stark-Winter-is-Coming-Mode over his stance on Net Neutrality. Despite the previous administrations efforts to preserve Net Neutrality, Ajit Pai has publicly sided with big business by proclaiming his intent to take a “weed whacker” to current regulations in the name of “investment, innovation, and job