Kevin Mitnick, whose pioneering antics tricking employees in the 1980s and 1990s into helping him steal software and services from big phone and tech companies made him the most celebrated U.S. hacker ...

Patrick Deshpande came to UCLA as a materials engineering student but switched to computer science after taking an introductory computer science class so he could learn to code solutions to real-world ...

In a famous scene from the 1992 movie Sneakers, a hacker classic, the main characters park a surveillance van across the street from their target's office and point a telephoto lens through his window ...

Since the dawn of the technological age, the film and television industry has been mining the world of computers for narrative gain. While some tech narratives depict the industry in a relatively ...

Most people don’t think twice about picking up a phone charging cable and plugging it in. But one hacker’s project wants to change that and raise awareness of the dangers of potentially malicious ...

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Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... While the FBI was hunting down notorious hacker Kevin Mitnick in the early 1990s, a newcomer named Erik Weisz showed up in Denver, moved into an apartment on ...

Exactly what killed the computer hacker who gave up Army whistleblower Chelsea Manning to the FBI remains a mystery. Forensic pathologists who performed Adrian Lamo’s autopsy were unable to determine ...

Kevin Mitnick, whose pioneering antics tricking employees in the 1980s and 1990s into helping him steal software and services from big phone and tech companies made him the most celebrated U.S. hacker ...

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