How I Hacked Medium’s Top Stories

Note: This is being published with the permission of Medium under the responsible disclosure policy. The vulnerability is now fixed.

If you’re familiar with Medium, you’ll know that any user can recommend a post as a way of “liking” it. Top…

The New Trend of Artisanal Spam: Scamming Gets Smart

Spam email hardly ever makes it to your inbox…

The FBI has made us all vulnerable with its iPhone hack

This article originally appeared in Indepedent…

Safe Clearing of Private Data

Author: Roman Fomichev

We often need to store private data in programs, for example passwords, secret keys, and their derivatives, and we usually need to clear their traces in the memory after using them so that a potential intruder can’t gain access…

Watch Paint Dry: How I got a game on the Steam Store without anyone from Valve ever looking at it.

Digital transformation: the alarm bells are ringing…

The Real Danger in Your Inbox

Oren J. Falkowitz — Area 1 Security — Co-Founder and CEO

Most people conflate spam and phishing. There are similarities but the volumes, motivations, and damages are different. Spam has been clogging inboxes since AOL operated solely through dial-up…

Redefining the internet: the move toward full encryption