A Parking App Leaked 2.1 Million License Plates, and Its Bug Bounty Was a Hoodie
ParkSwift stored plate numbers, payment tokens, and GPS history in an open database. The researcher who reported it got merch and a legal threat.
Dex Okafor
Dex reports on hackers, breaches, and the cybercrime economy. His inbox is open to tips, leaks, and angry sysadmins.
Leaked Chats Show a Ransomware Gang Running a Better Help Desk Than Its Victims
Six months of internal chat logs from the Vantablack ransomware group reveal salaried negotiators, performance reviews, and customer satisfaction surveys.
Why Some Brands Grow Faster Than Everyone Else
The best product doesn't always win—the most visible one does. Why distribution, not quality, increasingly decides which companies break out.
The Companies Quietly Controlling Who Gets Noticed Online
The internet has a visibility problem. A new category of companies doesn't make products or content—it manufactures attention itself.
The Most Important Company You've Never Heard Of Is Deciding What Feels Real Online
Culture feels spontaneous from the outside. Inside the industry that studies attention, virality is no longer purely accidental—it's selected and accelerated.