A new ransomware is sweeping the globe, but there’s a vaccine "I wonder if this is what Edward Jenner felt like." Image: Christopher Mineses/Mashable By Jack Morse2017-06-28 12:56:38 -0700 It’s a familiar story: You boot up your computer only to find…
Sometimes, traffic stops can be out of this world. Police in Alpharetta, Georgia stopped a car containing a rather otherworldly passenger on Sunday. The confused officer was quick to document the sighting and put it on Facebook, in case it…
Cato the Younger at The Louvre. Image via Wikipedia. Welcome back to Mid-Week Meditations, Lifehacker’s weekly dip into the pool of stoic wisdom, and how you can use its waters to reflect on and improve your life. This week’s entries…
Image via Marc Rogers Marc Roger’s career spans more than twenty years, including a decade managing security for the UK operator Vodafone. He’s been a CISO in South Korea and co-founded a disruptive Bay Area startup. He’s been hacking since…
Summer is here. But heat does not need to slow you down. Heat is among the hardest of adversaries in the outdoors. Hot weather can sap performance, wear you down, and, in extreme cases, the heat can kill. We spoke with Chris…
The companies and agencies hit by a cyberattack in the Ukraine, Russia, the US, parts of Europe, Asia and Australia might never be able to recover their data. See, some security researchers, including Kaspersky Lab, believe that the malware that…
Public transit can be a nightmare. Endless amounts of people and fumbling with your transit card are pretty much unavoidable, and that’s before you even get on that crowded train. Meow-Ludo Disco Gamma Meow-Meow, an Australian molecular biologist and the…
Microsoft’s latest Windows 10 Preview Build for Insiders in the Fast ring introduces what’s obviously meant as a response to all the ransomware attacks targeting the platform these days. The build comes with a new feature called "controlled folders" that…
Machines capable of carrying out tasks normally reserved for humans will boost global GDP by as much as 14 percent by 2030, according to PwC. In a report, the global auditing and consulting firm argued that the widespread adoption of…
Photo by Ruth Hartnup There are so many things to love about travel but street drinking has quickly become one of my favorite activities abroad. If you live in a place where it’s legal (and normal) to walk down the…