Nathan Wasson
Nathan grew up with computer hardware news and reviews in the family business and eventually joined the business himself in 2014. He initially joined to make video reviews and help with the podcast, but was soon asked if he would write, and he's been writing about computers ever since. More recently, Nathan has developed a passion for internet privacy, security, and decentralization and likes writing about those topics the most. He spends much of his free time tinkering with Linux distributions, custom Android ROMs, privacy and security tools, and self-hosting solutions. He also started gaming on a PC at a young age and still can't give up Unreal Tournament 2004 and Supreme Commander 2. Beyond computers, Nathan is a car enthusiast and philosophy nerd.
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Recent posts
CES 2023 continues at a fevered pace, and today HP is unveiling a sizable collection of laptops, monitors, and PCs, alongside announcements from HyperX, which HP acquired in 2021. This year at CES, HP is offering a lineup of new products...
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Dell has a lot of new and updated products to show off at CES 2023, and the company’s Alienware brand is no exception. Today, Alienware launched a new IPS gaming monitor with a blazing fast 500Hz refresh rate. The company also announced...
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Earlier this year, Google awarded a security researcher $107,500 for finding vulnerabilities in the company’s smart speakers. The researcher demonstrated that these vulnerabilities could be leveraged to link secondary accounts to Google...
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This week, Lake Charles Memorial Health System (LCMHS) in Louisiana published a notice informing its patients of a cybersecurity incident that occurred back in October of this year. According to the notice, threat actors gained...
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BIT Mining Limited has published a news release disclosing that the cryptocurrency mining pool run by its subsidiary, BTC.com, suffered a cyberattack earlier this month on December 3. In the course of the attack, threat actors stole...
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Back in August of this year, an unknown actor operating under the username “devil” posted information relating to 5.4 million Twitter users for sale on BreachForums. This data included the email addresses and phone numbers tied to users’...
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Back in August of this year, the password manager LastPass suffered a security breach that resulted in the theft of proprietary technical information and portions of the company’s source code. Hackers then used the stolen information to...
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iRobot’s automated Roomba vacuum cleaners have been navigating households for many years using infrared sensors. However, the company has equipped some of its more recent Roomba models with visible light cameras. As it turns out, these...
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Earlier this year, researchers from the threat intelligence group Red Canary identified an infectious computer worm that was found to have been present in customers’ environments going back to September 2021. According to later analysis by...
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Lenovo IdeaPad Pro 5i (click to enlarge)
CES 2023 is still two weeks out, but various technology companies have begun teasing products that will be displayed at the upcoming trade show. Lenovo is among those getting ahead of the...
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An investigation conducted by the Secret Service’s Cyber Fraud Task Force (CFTF) and Internal Revenue Service - Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI) has resulted in the arrest and conviction of a former T-Mobile employee by the name of Argishti...
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Gemini, the cryptocurrency exchange founded by the Winklevoss twins, published a blog post this week warning about phishing campaigns targeting its customers. These phishing campaigns are likely related to a previously undisclosed data...
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Back in October, a researcher at the cybersecurity firm Salt Security uncovered multiple security vulnerabilities in the LEGO BrickLink website that could have allowed hackers to hijack users’ accounts and arbitrarily read files on the the...
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Joint research conducted by cybersecurity firms Checkmarx and Illustria has revealed a massive phishing campaign that flooded open source repositories with over 144,000 packages. Unlike many other campaigns that involve the distribution of...
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The cuteness of kittens is widely recognized and appreciated on the internet, but there’s nothing cute about the Iranian Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) known as “Charming Kitten.” Also known as TA453 or APT42, this threat group has been...
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A researcher at the cloud security company Lightspin recently discovered a flaw in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Elastic Container Registry (ECR) Public Gallery that threat actors could have exploited to delete or modify container images...
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In the course of investigating an Android banking Trojan known as “Ermac,” cybersecurity researchers at ThreatFabric recently discovered a service that takes legitimate apps and turns them into Trojans. The researchers have named this...
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This week, the Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center (HC3), which is part of the US Department of Health and Human Service (HHS), issued a report warning the healthcare industry about the threat posed by a new ransomware group that operates under the name “Royal.” This report comes a...
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Yesterday, Apple announced a set of new security features coming soon to iPhones. Among these features is an option to enable end-to-end encryption (E2EE) for iCloud backups. US users are slated to be the first group for which this feature...
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The first day of Pwn2Own Toronto 2022 has come and gone, and Samsung’s Galaxy S22 has had it rough, with more potential abuse yet to come. A variety of printers and routers from different companies have also taken some beatings. Pwn2Own is...
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Last week, Google began pushing out an update to its Chrome browser that fixes a critical security vulnerability in the browser’s JavaScript engine. Google noted in its blog post about the update that an exploit for this vulnerability is...
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Edward Snowden, the former NSA contractor turned mass surveillance whistleblower, officially became a Russian citizen in September of this year when Russian president Vladimir Putin signed a decree granting citizenship to Snowden and...
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