Lily Hay Newman, Author at CW Enterprises

DuckDuckGo Will Automatically Encrypt More Sites You Visit

19th November 2019Lily Hay Newman

If a site offers HTTPS, DuckDuckGo’s Smarter Encryption will take you there. Source: Wired – DuckDuckGo Will Automatically Encrypt More Sites You [...]

Burglars Really Do Use Bluetooth Scanners to Find Laptops and Phones

18th November 2019Lily Hay Newman

Bluetooth scanners are readily available and easy to use—which means that smash-and-grab car break-in might not have been pure chance. Source: Wired [...]

How Iran's Government Shut Off the Internet

17th November 2019Lily Hay Newman

After years of centralizing internet control, Iran pulled the plug on connectivity for nearly all of its citizens. Source: Wired – How [...]

Hackers Discovered Only After Maxing Out Victim's Cloud Storage

16th November 2019Lily Hay Newman

A border privacy win, a suspect Army app, and more of the week’s top security news. Source: Wired – Hackers Discovered Only [...]

As 5G Rolls Out, Troubling New Security Flaws Emerge

12th November 2019Lily Hay Newman

Researchers have identified 11 new vulnerabilities in 5G—with time running out to fix them. Source: Wired – As 5G Rolls Out, Troubling [...]

Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince on the Struggles of Policing the Web

8th November 2019Lily Hay Newman

At WIRED25 the internet infrastructure chief talks about doing the hard calculus of pulling support from controversial sites—and why that’ll happen again. [...]

What Keeps NSA Cybersecurity Boss Anne Neuberger Up at Night

8th November 2019Lily Hay Newman

At WIRED25, the NSA’s Anne Neuberger talked election security, low orbit satellites, and weaponized autonomous drones. Source: Wired – What Keeps NSA [...]