China's spy agencies are using talent competitions to recruit young hackers for cyberattacks on the US. The revelation comes in a new report that has shed fresh light on the secretive state's "hack ...

Telegram, a two-month-old messaging app for iOS and Android, promises heavily encrypted, self-destructing messages and an open data protocol–and it’s putting up some cash to prove its mettle. To win, ...

China's top hackers have gathered this weekend in the city of Chengdu to compete in the Tianfu Cup, the country's top hacking competition. Over the course of two days -- November 16 and 17 -- Chinese ...

Larger winnings for underground skills competitions are attracting sophisticated crime groups. White hats aren’t alone in holding hacking contests. Russian-language cybercriminals are known for ...

Cybercriminals can be inventive—especially if there’s money on the table. One hacker has penned a 50-page essay on how to invest in cryptocurrency and sell at the right time to make a profit. Another ...

Dennis Fisher talks with security researcher Dino Dai Zovi about his upcoming Black Hat talk on Mac OS X rootkits, exploiting the Mac and the value of hacking contests and internal code reviews.

Bug bounties and hacking contests aren't exactly new and almost every tech firm is getting into it. In fact, even Apple just recently revealed its own rewards program for that. Not to be outdone at ...

A pair of Gartner analysts feel that such contests can pose an unnecessary risk or even short-circuit the proper security-patching process A pair of Gartner analysts Tuesday denounced a recent hack ...

Contest organizers this year increased sixfold the prizes given out for successful zero-day browser exploits during the CanSecWest security conference, but wound up with just one more exploit to show ...

The need is here to teach today's students how to become good hackers that can spot bugs before the bad guys do. The recent Equifax security breach, which affected essentially every other person in ...

At CanSecWest, hackers nab major prize money for exposing OSes and browsers. But new zero-days aren't as easy to come by We’re awash in stories about catastrophic breaches and mysterious security ...

The only notable defacements in the widely publicized Defacers Challenge hacking contest that was supposed to occur over the holiday weekend were carried out by a dozen security experts who carried ...