The hacking group Anonymous now has its own desktop operating system, pre-loaded with tools for finding Website vulnerabilities and simulating denial-of-service attacks. However, some members of the ...

Surveillance software maker Hacking Team has provided its government customers with the ability to infect the low-level firmware found in laptops and other computers that they wanted to spy on. The ...

Google has never been stingy when it comes to paying for information about security vulnerabilities in its products. Now it's offering an especially large--and especially nerdy--sum of money. At its ...

Threatpost Editor Mike Mimoso talks to Synack director of research and well-known OS X hacker Patrick Wardle about the discovery of an OS X malware dropper that likely was developed by the Hacking ...

Google’s operating system Chrome OS survived all attempts to hack it at this year’s Pwnium 3 competition, which took place at the CanSecWest security conference in Vancouver, BC this week. Google, ...

A clarification was made to this story. Read below for details. update Gaining root access to a Mac is "easy pickings," according to an individual who won an OS X hacking challenge last month by ...

Let’s say you want to give Firefox OS — the mobile operating system made by the same people who make the browser — a try. Until now, that’s meant one of two things: buying one of a small handful of ...

Google's Pwnium hack event went off well this year, as none of the attendees managed to find a security flaw in Chrome OS that would win them part of the offered prize of $3,141,590 (£2.1m). However, ...

A Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) project called “Imperial” included three hacking tools for infiltrating the Mac and Linux operating systems, according to the latest “Vault 7” leaks. The documents ...

Surveillance software maker Hacking Team has provided its government customers with the ability to infect the low-level firmware found in laptops and other computers that they wanted to spy on. The ...