Hackers stories

Ethical hackers, also known as penetration testers or white-hat hackers, mimic the techniques used by malicious hackers to try and break into computer systems and discover vulnerabilities before the bad guys can exploit them.More

Imperva Research Labs has revealed findings of a six-month intensive investigation into a botnet that has been exploiting CMS vulnerabilities.More

“We have arrived at the point in history where you are ignorant and negligent if you do not have a way to receive useful input from ethical hackers."More

Players will be able to use the Death Replay to see how they were killed from their opponent’s perspective.More

"We want to make Australia the best place in the world for women to build and scale a startup. #SheHacks is the perfect starting point for any woman wanting to create something great."More

Participants will try to compromise a target system protected by Stealth, Unisys’ encrypted, identity-based microsegmentation solution.More

Cybercriminals are actively abusing the names of artists and songs nominated for a Grammy 2020 award, in order to spread malware.More

“As you can see, we've had our eye on you for some time now, Mr. Anderson..."More

New research from Akamai shows the gaming community is quickly becoming one of the most highly targeted industries for cyber attacks, with hackers largely driven by gaining consumer credentials.More

Carbon Black's Rick McElroy discusses this new trend and what it means for the new age of cybercrime.More

The study finds using a number of the top password managers is no better than putting your passwords in a text file and saving it to your desktop. More

What happens when hackers get the munchies? Apparently in Canada, they decide to put their ‘hamburglar’ gloves on and go after unwitting people who happen to use the McDonalds app.More

The next evolution of ransomware, escalating nation-state attacks, biometric hacking, Wi-Fi protocol security, and Die Hard fiction becomes reality.More

As companies integrate more digital tools into their business, many of them remain unaware of the risk code-signing certificates are exposing them to.More

Europol has revealed details surrounding the arrest of a 25-year-old coder who allegedly helped to extort a British organisation.More

Endace's EMEA senior director shares why agility is fundamental to cybersecurity, enforcing that if it isn't top of the agenda, it should be.More

Cybercriminals are developing new technologies to not only penetrate system defences, but also to dwell within a company environment for longer.More

The power grid in modern countries may not be as secure as you think, as reports have emerged revealing hackers have breached Germany's supply.More

Centrify, a provider of Zero Trust Security are calling for the end of password protection.More

How much are cybercriminals earning for their efforts? A new study by Bromium suggests that figure could be as much as US$2 million per job.More

Cybereason created a fake financial services company with weak cybersecurity to reveal how cybercriminals are using bots to do all the grunt work.More

It can take hackers less than an hour to steal data from an organisation, and most of the time their targets don’t even detect the attacks.More

Respondents in APAC put forth highest IT budget allocation to security, but overall executives allocate security less than 10% of their budget.More

Check Point has released a 'cryptomining 101' document that details how cybercriminals hack into devices to steal their CPU power for illicit mining.More