From the static web in Web 1.0, and the dynamic participatory Web 2.0, the internet is entering it’s next large-scale iteration. We will look back at how the web has evolved, where it’s going next, and why this matters.

A record was set in the first quarter of 2021, with 12 cybersecurity unicorns created globally, which is more than double the previous quarterly high. It’s also well above the five cybersecurity companies that achieved unicorn status in all of 2020 and the eight that achieved it in all of 2019.

The Pegasus project is a collaborative journalistic investigation into the espionage on journalists, opposition politicians, activists, and business people using the Pegasus spyware. The investigation began with a list of more than 50,000 phone numbers of citizens in countries that are known to be clients of NSO Group.

From personal smart watches and home speakers to the vision of entire smart cities, the buzz around IoT has been dominating a lot of tech headlines in the past few years. Now we are hearing about the intersection of IoT and blockchain, this article will examine if these two technologies truly intersect in a beneficial way when it comes to cybersecurity.

The term “token economy”, originating in applied psychology, refers to a system of incentives that reinforce and build desirable behaviors; targeted behaviors are reinforced with tokens and later exchanged for rewards. Today, “token economics” more commonly refers to the study, design, and implementation of economic systems based on cryptocurrencies.

There has been a long outstanding problem for large scale criminals: how to transport and hide huge sums of illegally obtained money without getting caught?

In the past few years, ransomware hackers have found a near perfect solution — cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin. It's fast. It's easy. Best of all, it's largely anonymous and hard to trace.