Digital Vulnerability

Articles where digital literacy, security posture, data exposure or account security changes the outcome.

Infrastructure Risk | Telecom and Internet

Ninety Per Cent of Emergency Calls From One Indoor Spot Missed the Dispatcher. Ordinary Calls From the Same Spot Connected in Six Seconds.
BySeung Hyoun Kim September 14, 2026October 2, 2026

File photo: a dispatch room at the Redding Interagency Command Center, California. Photo: Region 5 Photography, via Wikimedia Commons, public domain. In the news · July 2026 The FCC published a Next Generation 911 reliability and interoperability rule in the Federal Register, effective 10 August 2026. It requires covered providers to make location facilities reliable,…

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Accounts and Devices | Crime and Security Risk

Changing Your Password Every 90 Days Made It Easier to Guess. The Standard That Started the Rule Now Says to Stop.
BySeung Hyoun Kim August 29, 2026October 4, 2026

The composition and expiry rules came from one 2003 appendix, and its author regrets it. What actually takes over accounts is reuse, infostealers and phishable codes.

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Accounts and Devices | Crime and Security Risk

Nobody Updates the Router. The FBI Says Criminals Are Living in the Old Ones.
BySeung Hyoun Kim August 29, 2026October 4, 2026

The FBI warned in May 2025 that end-of-life home routers are being taken over for criminal proxy networks, using malware that needs no password. What attackers actually want is your residential IP address. The eight settings that matter, why the guest network is the highest-value free change, and the backup rule that is the only answer to ransomware.

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Crime and Security Risk | Privacy and Data

Four Points Identify You. That Is Why Your Location Is Worth Selling.
BySeung Hyoun Kim August 29, 2026October 4, 2026

Four known places-and-times identify 95% of people in an anonymised mobility dataset, and coarsening the data barely helps. How real-time bidding broadcasts your location to bidders who keep it even when they lose, what the FTC found inside Mobilewalla and X-Mode, and which defences actually work – including the deletion platform California switched on this month.

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Accounts and Devices | Crime and Security Risk

The Two-Factor Code on Your Phone Will Not Stop This
BySeung Hyoun Kim August 28, 2026October 4, 2026

US fraud losses hit $16 billion in 2025. The six-digit code texted to your phone can be relayed by a fake page in real time — and CISA ranks it last. What phishing-resistant authentication does differently, and the two free steps that matter most.

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