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As it turns out, there’s more to worry about than hacking from the cloud. New research from Ben-Gurion University in Israel has shown it is possible to hack into computers that aren’t connected to the ...

Bounty-hunting became mainstream in 2012 with Bugcrowd and HackerOne. These were followed by, for example, YesWeHack (2015) ...

A man in a black hoodie wearing a Guy Fawkes mask sits in a dark room, face lit up forebodingly by his laptop screen. He types furiously, laying down dozens of lines of code. After a few moments go by ...

ORLANDO, Fla. — Documents show that a former Disney employee who was accused of hacking the computer system Walt Disney World uses to create its menus has pled guilty in Federal Court. Michael Scheuer ...

Researchers at FIU’s College of Engineering and Computing have developed an encryption algorithm to defend videos from attackers with access to the world's most powerful computers. The encryption ...

Opinion It was 40 years ago that four young British hackers set about changing the law, although they didn't know it at the time. It was a cross-platform attack including a ZX Spectrum, a BBC Micro, ...

Securing your computer and network is a lot more complex than setting a trusty password (that isn’t your pet’s name!). There is an entire IT field devoted to testing the security of a system or ...

The laws of quantum mechanics make it impossible to copy quantum information, but that doesn’t mean quantum computers are unhackable. Two independent teams of researchers have now devised methods for ...

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit recently ruled that violations of employers’ computer access policies do not constitute violations of the federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) ...

Instead, hacking looks quite boring to the average person. A hacker's screen is often filled with computer terminals. Naturally, Hollywood is in the business of dramatizing boring realities, so you ...