Bounty-hunting became mainstream in 2012 with Bugcrowd and HackerOne. These were followed by, for example, YesWeHack (2015) and Intigriti (2016) in Europe. Used correctly, bounty platforms take away ...

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 ...

The unknown Claude user wrote Spanish-language prompts for the chatbot to act as an elite hacker, finding vulnerabilities in government networks, writing computer scripts to exploit them and ...

A good degree in computer science, plus specialist certifications, should put you in the right position to become an ethical hacker. Unlike the popular image of hackers, ethical hackers don’t tend to ...

Catalin Dragomir, a Romanian citizen, pleaded guilty to hacking into an Oregon state computer and selling access to it, as ...

In the early 2000s, Gary McKinnon breached US military and NASA networks in what prosecutors called “the biggest military computer hack of all time.” He says he stumbled onto evidence of a hidden ...

In the early hours of January 20, 2023, a doctor’s user account logged onto the Hawaii Electronic Death Registration System from out of state to certify the death of a man named Jesse Kipf. The death ...

In the wake of four young people being arrested over suspected involvement in the recent Marks & Spencer, Co-op and Harrods ransomware attacks, it is easy to rush to censure those responsible for the ...

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) charged Robert B. Westbrook, a U.K. citizen, with hacking into the computer systems of five U.S. public companies to access confidential earnings ...

Computer hacking mastermind Albert Gonzalez was sentenced in Boston federal court on Thursday to 20 years in prison for two cases that charged him with stealing 40 million debit and credit card ...

Whenever technology starts developing faster than our ability to understand it, a new kind of movie emerges. Some of them are also some of the best sci-fi movies, others try to close the gap between ...