In 2015, nothing that touched the internet was safe. Silk Road mastermind Ross Ulbricht went to jail for life, and his advisor Variety Jones was nabbed in Thailand. The conversation over encryption heated to white hot as US authorities called out tech companies like Apple and Google for their potential roles in coordinating the Paris attacks. Chrysler suffered a major blow when (thankfully white-hat) car hackers demonstrated an over-the-internet exploit capable of hijacking a Jeep, which affected 1.4 million vehicles—and they weren't the only ones; this summer was the summer of car hacking. The director of the CIA had his email hacked, and anyone who used the Cheaters' dating site Ashley Madison, had serious reason to sweat. The lesson here: Security is everyone's concern now.
2015 Was a Dangerous Year on the Internet
From Jeeps to dating sites, the hackers ruled the Internet this year.
