From the “No good deed goes unpunished” files, this week came news of a German programmer who probably wishes he had selected better clients. According to Heise Online (English translation), a ...

Hacking is more prevalent today than it ever has been, but there is still a lot of bad information out there. Here are the myths about hacking you can ignore.

A cybersecurity engineer who participated in the Google-sponsored bug-finding event 'LLM bugSWAT' and successfully hacked 'Gemini' and made the source code public was awarded the title of 'Most ...

Most people see hackers as evil, but companies also use hackers to find and fix weaknesses in their systems. These ethical hackers—also known as "white hat hackers"—use the same techniques as ...

People who break into a computer system and inform the company that they have done so. They are either concerned employees or security professionals who are paid to find vulnerabilities.

A group of white hat hackers from Minnesota called RedTeam Security helps companies prevent cyberattacks by exposing their vulnerabilities. One of the ways they do this is by breaking into a ...

An curved arrow pointing right. A power company in the Midwest hired a group of white hat hackers known as RedTeam Security to test its defenses. We followed them around for 3 days, as they ...

A computer hacker is an online security expert who exploits weaknesses in a computer system or network. The term 'white hat' refers to hackers who operate for non-malicious reasons, for example ...