FARGO — Buying sneakers isn’t what it used to be. The days of visiting a shoe store the day of a long-awaited release, waiting in line to grab the right size and interacting with a salesperson are ...

Jason Kent, hacker-in-residence at Cequence Security, discusses fake online accounts, and the fraud they carry out on a daily basis. Recently, one of my friends from my submarine days sent me a friend ...

Sneakerbots have been making life miserable for the average sneakerhead who finds it almost impossible to secure a pair of grails these days. While we continue to curse the house of Nike, respectfully ...

Around the time that dedicated collectors started pitching tents outside sneakers stores, winding so far down the block that police sometimes felt it necessary to shut the whole thing down, sneakers ...

Try as you might, your chances of successfully beating bots to buy a hyped sneaker release probably feel increasingly futile. With reselling becoming more mainstream, fly-by-night flippers have set ...

Srijan Sharma, a sophomore in high school from New Jersey, estimates that he’s made $50,000 reselling sneakers. But he couldn't have done it without the help of bots. Last year, the U.S. athletic ...

Bots are a special, clever kind of software. Much faster than any human sneakerhead could ever click on the correct shoe size and enter their credit card number, bots can swoop in and buy everything ...

Buying limited-edition shoes is complicated and not as fun as it should be. The rise of violence in sneaker culture (people have been murdered for a pair of Air Jordans) led companies like Nike to ...