hackers

You've probably read the WIRED story "Hackers Remotely Kill a Jeep on the Highway—With Me in It" by now. Either way, it was scary as hell. Today, the company behind Jeep has finally taken action and

So far this week, at Black Hat, I have learned to deeply mistrust: passwords, chip-and-PIN cards, USB devices, HTTPS connections, more than two billion phones, governments worldwide, all human societi

Modern development frameworks and libraries can make writing software quite a bit easier, but at the same time, hackers are also aware of this and they specifically target popular frameworks to find p

Andrew "<a href="https://beta.techcrunch.com/tag/Weev">Weev</a>" Auernheimer is a troll, but he's not a criminal. This is clear. In his recent appearance in federal appellate court in Philadelphia, t

Those interested in building a Bitcoin exchange should look no further than this chunk of source code posted by a “Russian leaker” called nanashi_. It alleges to contain the 1,700-line sou

News that <a target="_blank" href="http://krebsonsecurity.com/2014/02/time-to-harden-your-hardware/">Linksys and Belkin</a> hardware was inherently insecure and could easily allow hackers to access yo

The explosion in both online and offline programming platforms over the last year has made one thing clear: Learning to code is hot. (With two “t’s.”) Well, that and the fact that ou

The New York County District Attorney announced that the NYPD arrested four men on March 21, 2013 suspected of using concealed card skimming systems to grab card numbers and PINs from hundreds of vict

Snapchat now verifies new users aren't robots by making them choose its ghost mascot in images. It's an attempt to keep out hackers who could steal phone numbers by exploiting a leaked database of det

Corey Thuen was a developer at the Idaho National Laboratory who helped to develop a network-visualization tool called Sophia. Then Battelle Energy, the company that <a target="_blank" href="http://ww

The first smartphone I owned was a Nokia communicator, which I chose because the C++ dev kit gave me the most freedom. When the iPhone appeared I did not switch, because mandatory App Store signing to

In an <a target="_blank" href="http://atlantisblog.org/silk-road-subdued-but-this-ex-blackmarket-employee-believes-they-only-released-a-monster/">interesting post-mortem release</a> by the creators of

My name is Andrew Auernheimer. I used to believe problems could be solved with criticism and discourse in our marketplace of ideas. Three years ago I incremented an integer on a public web API and ana

Andrew "Weev" Auernheimer has been placed in "administrative segregation," prison shorthand for solitary confinement for "investigative purposes." Supporters believe he was locked down and given no

Needs some pharmacologicals? Dirty deeds done dirt cheap? There's an app (or website) for that. For years, the Silk Road has been a source for black market dealings. Hidden on the Tor network, <a

Security writer Brian Krebs' phone was spoofed and <a target="_blank" href="http://krebsonsecurity.com/2013/03/the-world-has-no-room-for-cowards/">a SWAT team called to his home last week</a> by hacke

Services on code-sharing site <a target="_blank" href="http://www.github.com">GitHub</a> have been disrupted for over an hour in what started as a "<a target="_blank" href="https://status.github.com/m

On June 14th, 2010, Michael Arrington <a href="https://beta.techcrunch.com/2010/06/14/were-awarding-goatse-security-a-crunchie-award-for-public-service/">awarded a Crunchie</a> to two members of Goat

With hacking and malware on the rise, Europe is cracking down on cybersecurity: today the European Commission, working with the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy

Jailbreaking has returned, and already servers are overloaded. Today, a group of iOS hackers styling themselves as <a target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/evad3rs">the Evad3rs team</a> has releas