Security News

ZDResearch Advanced Web Hacking Training 2018 – Learn Online
2018-09-25 13:18

Are you looking to master web hacking? Interested in a bug-hunting career? Do you want to land a job in cybersecurity? Are you already working as a security engineer, but want to further advance...

NSA Leak Fuels Rise in Hacking for Crypto Mining: Report
2018-09-19 15:40

Illicit cryptocurrency mining has been surging over the past year, in part due to a leaked software tool from the US National Security Agency, researchers said Wednesday. read more

How Facebook wants to protect political campaigners from hacking
2018-09-19 10:54

The social network is trying to protect candidates, elected officials and their staff from "hackers and foreign adversaries".

Maliciuos hacking activity increasingly targeting critical infrastructure
2018-09-19 06:30

In this podcast, Andrew Ginter, VP of Industrial Security at Waterfall Security Solutions, and Edward Amoroso, CEO of TAG Cyber, talk about how the traditional focus of most hackers has been on...

Who's hacking into UK unis? Spies, research-nickers... or rival gamers living in res hall?
2018-09-17 10:20

Report fingers students and staff for academic cyber-attacks Who's hacking into university systems? Here's a clue from the UK higher education tech crew at Jisc: the attacks drop dramatically...

Security Risks of Government Hacking
2018-09-13 14:08

Some of us -- myself included -- have proposed lawful government hacking as an alternative to backdoors. A new report from the Center of Internet and Society looks at the security risks of...

To prevent hacking, Georgia must end all-electronic voting, activists say
2018-09-12 08:30

In Curling v. Kemp, both sides are set to duke it out in court on Wednesday.

U.S. Ties Lazarus to North Korea and Major Hacking Conspiracy
2018-09-06 23:00

The DoJ said a DPRK spy, Park Jin-hyok, was involved in “a conspiracy to conduct multiple destructive cyberattacks around the world."

IoT Category Added to Pwn2Own Hacking Contest
2018-09-05 06:00

This year’s mobile-focused Pwn2Own hacking competition organized by Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) will include a new category for Internet of Things (IoT) devices. read more

Voting machine maker claims hacking competitions a 'green light' for foreign hackers
2018-08-28 22:56

NSA code cracker says no, hackers performing a service Voting machine vendor ES&S says it did not cooperate with the Voting Village hacking competition at DEF CON because it worried the event...