The finale of HBO's Silicon Valley series pointed up a subtle parallel to the real-world challenges in vulnerability reporting—rather than risk going to jail, Pied Piper chose to burn the company to the ground. For decades, white hat and gray hat hackers had no place to report cybersecurity flaws without fear of legal hassles. Nowadays we have Bug Bounty programs, where hackers get paid to find and disclose security flaws, and even get some cash for their work.
There’s been a lot of buzz lately about the use of AI to generate art—not just pictures, but videos, music, and even scripts for plays and movies. Some people think
The 2025 ransomware attack on the state of Nevada’s systems is a great lesson in incident response: they recovered quickly, lost nothing, and ended up with better security in the
AI, artificial intelligence, doesn’t know everything. In fact, it comes up with wrong answers sometimes. Like, a lot of the time. They’re called “hallucinations.” They’re not called “lies” because AI
