Chris Thompson's journey took him from hacking game controls as a teenager to founding IBM’s X-Force Red team.

A forum thread titled “Hacking for Profit. Working method” offers a rare glance into how underground communities pass information about vulnerability exploitation and hacking techniques in a form of ...

Few upcoming indie games are embracing 1990s computer culture as completely as Hack '95. Announced during the PC Gaming Show ...

Hacker conversation with Sri Lanka-born Isira Adithya, a successful bug bounty hunter driven by the desire to bend systems to ...

Officials from the US Department of Justice seized nearly 400 domains linked to illegal World Cup streams and warned viewers ...

Solar geoengineering is often portrayed as a relatively cheap and easy fix for climate change. But as researchers take a ...

In the case of “Wake Up!”, it only needs 16 bytes to produce a Matrix-inspired visualization with an accompanying soundtrack. The program is what’s called an “intro”—a short, size-restricted program ...

An ongoing malware campaign is targeting WhatsApp users in multiple countries with deceptive messages that push VBScript ...

The difference between a virus and a worm is not semantic. A virus waits for a user to trigger it; a worm exploits ...

The word “hacker” didn’t start with cybercrime. Learn how MIT students, model trains and early computers helped create one of ...

Since 2017, Iason Gabriel has worked at the tech giant, trying to anticipate – and think through – the impact of AI. But as commercial and geopolitical pressures escalate, can ethicists make any ...

Researchers at the University of Toronto showed how hackers could use artificial intelligence to create a program that could target any known flaw in the world’s computers. By Cade Metz Cade Metz has ...