Tag: Security / Cyberattacks and Hacks

A few short decades ago, the archetypal hacker was a bored teenager breaking into his school’s network to change grades, à la […]

Safecrackers of the past put a stethoscope to a safe’s panel while turning its dial, listening for the telltale murmurs of the […]

This week, the notorious 8chan went down after its infrastructure provider Cloudflare withdrew services over the forum’s radical, violence-promoting content. Cloudflare didn’t […]

When you think about how hackers could break into your smartphone, you probably imagine it would start with clicking a malicious link […]

A dramatic saga that began with a civil lawsuit between AT&T and former employees has resulted in a high-profile arrest. Muhammad Fahd, […]

Hackers try to find novel ways to circumvent or under­mine data encryption schemes all the time. But at the Black Hat security […]

High-speed 5G mobile data networks may still very much be a work in progress, but they’ve already started rolling out in some […]

On Monday, the FBI and the bank Capital One disclosed a data breach of 106 million credit card applications that compromised information […]

When news appeared in May of the security vulnerability in Windows that would come to be known as BlueKeep, security researchers almost […]

Two years ago, researchers Billy Rios and Jonathan Butts discovered disturbing vulnerabilities in Medtronic’s popular MiniMed and MiniMed Paradigm insulin pump lines. […]