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An IT Guy on Vacation
I went on vacation to shut my brain off. Naturally, I spent it finding the Wi-Fi access points hidden in a cruise ship's walls.
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Your photos know where you live
I handed an AI a photo with nothing in it, a blank wall and a few trees, no signs. It named the state. Then I gave it a window view with the location scrubbed out, and minutes later it had the exact building and floor.
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How a stranger on the bus found her secret Instagram
Last week a Reddit user described a small, deeply unsettling moment. A man sat near her on a bus, the two exchanged a glance, and by that evening he had followed her on Instagram. Not the main account she posts from, but the burner: no real name, no profile photo,
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You can’t say bomb on an airplane
Somewhere over the Atlantic last Saturday night, a plane full of people learned that a teenager's taste in speaker names can cost you your whole evening. United Flight 236 left Newark for Palma de Mallorca, Spain, around 6 pm on May 30. About two hours in, off the
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Microsoft 365 prices go up July 1.
If you run your business or your nonprofit on Microsoft 365, your bill is about to climb. On July 1, Microsoft raises list prices on most of its commercial plans. Business Basic goes from $6 to $7 per user each month. Business Standard, the plan most small offices actually run,
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The AI jobs apocalypse got postponed.
A year ago, the two biggest names in AI told us our jobs were in trouble. OpenAI's Sam Altman warned that entire categories of work would vanish. Anthropic's Dario Amodei even put a number on it: roughly half of entry-level white-collar jobs gone within
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Leaked Email
Your email address is in a leak. Probably more than one. So is mine. That sounds dramatic. The actual implication is not so much. At some point you signed up for an account at LinkedIn or Dropbox or some forum you've forgotten the name of, the company got
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Why MFA annoyance is worth it
MFA. Few terms make users so annoyed. I'm sure you've seen the pop-ups practically begging you to set up MFA. Your work probably forced an authenticator app or two for you to use every time you want to sign into a work tool. It'
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What a VPN actually does
A user showed me a VPN ad on her phone last month and asked if she should buy it. The ad had a hooded figure at a coffee shop. Ominous music. A scrolling list of things hackers were apparently doing to her bank account while she ordered a latte. Fifteen
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How to spot a phishing email in 2026
Have you ever been phished by your own work? Have you felt betrayed when you clicked a link in an email that looked legit and then your IT department sends you an email assigning you mandatory phishing training? Email phishing has evolved over time, and so has the way to
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Patching is the new password
Verizon publishes a Data Breach Investigations Report every spring. It's the closest thing the security industry has to an annual census, built from real incident data submitted by hundreds of organizations and law-enforcement partners. The 2026 edition dropped yesterday, and it announced something that hadn't
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A WordPress privacy plugin opened 115,000 sites to takeover
A WordPress plugin called Burst Statistics, installed on about 200,000 sites and marketed as a privacy-friendly alternative to Google Analytics, has a critical authentication-bypass flaw that lets attackers walk in as the site administrator. Wordfence discovered it on May 8th. A patch shipped May 12. As of