Black Hat Conference

Rep. Will Hurd will no longer give the keynote address at the Black Hat security conference amid questions about his voting record on women’s rights. Hurd, a Texas Republican congressman, was sc

A “legacy system” was to blame for exposing the contact information of attendees of this year’s Black Hat security conference. Colorado-based pen tester and security researcher who g

Cryptocurrencies: a weird agglomerate of fascinating technology built by brilliant engineers; a whole new and potentially important form of economics; … and hype-machine puffed-up crazy-talk non

To hack: to study a system’s flaws and emergent properties, and use them for your own ends; to instill your own instructions into a computer’s memory, and coerce its microprocessor to run

So this is bad. Black Hat, the king of enterprise security conventions, kicked off today, and most noticeable amid the fusillade of security research was some impressive work from Ruben Santamarta of

Cybersecurity issues have plagued Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton's campaign for months, from her long-running email controversy to the recent hacks of the Democratic National Committee and the cam

When it rains, it pours. After it was announced last week that cars from both Chrysler and GM had major security vulnerabilities, two security researchers announced that they had figured out a way