Threat-hunters at Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 have decided a gang they spotted two years ago is backed by China, after seeing it sling a new variety of malware. Unit 42 first spotted this cluster of ...

Dianna Gunn built her first WordPress website in 2008. Since then, she's poured thousands of hours into understanding how websites and online businesses work. She's shared what she's learned on blogs ...

Tim Berners-Lee may have the smallest fame-to-impact ratio of anyone living. Strangers hardly ever recognize his face; on “Jeopardy!,” his name usually goes for at least sixteen hundred dollars.

On Christmas Day 2023, a man called the suicide prevention hotline claiming he had shot his girlfriend and threatening to kill himself. Police barreled toward the address but turned around before they ...

The next time you see a disposable vape on the street, think twice before dismissing it as junk. For Romanian engineer and origami artist Bogdan Ionescu, better known as BogdanTheGeek, these “fancier ...

People have been recycling batteries in disposable vapes for a while, but BogdanTheGeek has gone a lot of further, converting a specific model of disposable vape into a web server. How is that ...

Editor's take: Vapes aren't what they were a few years ago. Some now sport screens ranging from the basic – displaying charge and approximate puffs left – to elaborate LEDs showing brand logos with ...

When running applications or hosting services on Windows Server, checking ports are essential for smooth communication. Whether you are configuring a web server, troubleshooting connectivity, or ...

Stop taxing your server with inefficient polling routines! In this ultra-fast, 100-second explainer, learn how WebSockets enable real-time, two-way communication—eliminating latency and maximizing ...

Web scraping powers pricing, SEO, security, AI, and research industries. AI scraping threatens site survival by bypassing traffic return. Companies fight back with licensing, paywalls, and crawler ...

A Chinese-speaking advanced persistent threat (APT) actor has been observed targeting web infrastructure entities in Taiwan using customized versions of open-sourced tools with an aim to establish ...

July 23, 2025 update – Expanded analysis and threat intelligence from our continued monitoring of exploitation activity by Storm-2603 leading to the deployment of Warlock ransomware. Based on new ...