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Class Consciousness for Billionaires

Benjamin Wallace-Wells reviews “As Gods Among Men: A History of the Rich in the West,” by Guido Alfani.

Change Healthcare Finally Admits It Paid Ransomware Hackers—and Still Faces a Patient Data Leak

The company belatedly conceded both that it had paid the cybercriminals extorting it and that patient data nonetheless ended up on the dark web.

Coinbase Delivers Major Earnings, Revenue Beat Thanks To Soaring Bitcoin Prices, Crypto Interest

Coinbase transaction revenue more-than doubled as crypto prices, participation rally with bitcoin.

Global Dialogues at the 60th Venice Biennale

Exhibitions intricately woven into the fabric of Venice's historic and modern spaces Amid the grand spectacle of art, culture and dialogue that defines the 60th Venice Biennale, a series of peripheral events …

This Week in Security: Default Passwords, Lock Slapping, and Mastodown

The UK has the answer to all our IoT problems: banning bad default passwords. Additionally, the new UK law requires device makers to provide contact info for vulnerability disclosures, as …read more

A Vast New Dataset Could Supercharge the AI Hunt for Crypto Money Laundering

Blockchain analysis firm Elliptic, MIT, and IBM, have released a new AI detection model—and the 200-million-transaction dataset it's trained on—that aims to spot the “shape” of Bitcoin money laundering.

One day you'll leave this earth, but your data will live on in a messy future

A recent study by a cybersecurity firm found only 3% of respondents 65 and older had a digital estate plan for digital information and acccounts.

JTAG Hacking An SSD With A Pi: A Primer

[Matthew “wrongbaud” Alt] is well known around these parts for his hardware hacking and reverse-engineering lessons, and today he’s bringing us a JTAG hacking primer that demoes some cool new …read more

The $2.3 Billion Tornado Cash Case Is a Pivotal Moment for Crypto Privacy

Tuesday’s verdict in the trial of Alexey Pertsev, a creator of crypto-privacy service Tornado Cash, is the first in a string of cases that could make it much harder to skirt financial surveillance.

Mac and MacBook hit with 'Cuckoo' malware stealing sensitive data

Kurt "CyberGuy" Knutsson has a warning about a new type of malware that's targeting Apple computers for files that may contain private information.