Tag: Security / Cyberattacks and Hacks

Last winter, a hacker who goes by the handle Jmaxxz was looking for a Christmas present for his girlfriend. She’d recently flown […]

Automatic license plate reader cameras are controversial enough when law enforcement deploys them, given that they can create a panopticon of transit […]

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 […]