The sudden demise of darknet site Monopoly Market may have coincided with an exit scam. Experts say such con jobs could grow more common as law enforcement takedowns pressure dark web operators. A popular darknet market disbanded last month in what may have been a carefully orchestrated scam. Monopoly Market…

I’ve worked in the mainstream media. I did some very minor stuff with the Toronto Star about fifteen years ago before my cybersecurity research and blogging career took off. I’ve also contributed to some mainstream tech magazines under the Future plc banner (one of their newsstand one offs, something like…

What do Medscape, Forbes, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and The New Yorker all have in common? They’re all sources of medical research that Twitter is censoring. Medscape is a well trusted website that publishes content from medical journals. According to Wikipedia: “Medscape is a website providing access to medical…

My friend Kemal Ahmed is the Ontario NDP Disability Committee co-chair. He’s also an autistic man. I have long since given up on both the federal and Ontario NDP as being any good whatsoever when it comes to fighting for “progressive” values. I’m autistic as well, and no political party…

COVID is an ongoing pandemic that started in December 2019. Almost three years in, that pandemic is only getting worse, not better. In the developed world, people are killed by a single COVID infection on average 1–2% of the time. There’s a death count of over 6 million people worldwide…

If you’ve been paying attention and thinking critically, you’ll realize by now that the CDC, Health Canada, and most other supposed “public health” agencies here in the western world cannot be trusted. They’re tied to capitalist interests, and the capitalists have made their intentions clear. You must stop caring about…

Keeping software up to date is a mainstay of good cybersecurity hygiene. But in rare cases when patches backfire — either by introducing new, more severe software flaws or failing to fix the old ones — it can set off a scramble to set things right. Microsoft’s “Patch Tuesday” follows…

This is continued from Part one: The infuriating, avoidable, destructive disaster of COVID and the cybersecurity industry, Part two: COVID if it was a cyber threat, a timeline of events, Part three: COVID myths versus facts, and Part four: Firsthand experiences of COVID in the cybersecurity industry. With millions of…

This is continued from Part one: The infuriating, avoidable, destructive disaster of COVID and the cybersecurity industry, Part two: COVID if it was a cyber threat, a timeline of events, and Part three: COVID myths versus facts. I interviewed a few people in the cybersecurity industry who have been greatly…