Security, Spoken

As governor of Indiana, Mike Pence conducted state business usinghis personal email account. An AOL account. Soof course someone hacked it. Witha phishing scam. This story offers no end of rolling punchlines, the kicker being thevitriol the vice president showed during the campaigntoward Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adc...

In his address to Congress, President Donald Trump said he’s preparing “a budget that rebuilds the military, eliminates the Defense sequester, and calls for one of the largest increases in national defense spending in American history.” The day before the speech, White House officials said the administration planned to propose a “historic” $54 billion increase in the defense budget. Learn more abo...

Hacked medical devices have made scary headlines for years now. Dick Cheney ordered changes to his pacemaker to better protect it from hackers. Johnson & Johnson warned customers about a security bug in one of its insulin pumps last fall. And St. Jude has spent months dealing with the fallout of vulnerabilities in some of the company’s defibrillators, pacemakers, and other medical electronics. You...

Right now, in a vault controlled by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, there sits a 752-pound emerald with no rightful owner. This gem is the size of a mini­fridge. It weighs as much as two sumo wrestlers. Estimates of its worth range from a hundred bucks to $925 million. Eight years ago the emerald was logged into evidence by detectives Scott Miller and Mark Gayman of the Sheriff’s Majo...