Hospitals have a duty to protect the health of their patients, so they cannot afford to let cyberattacks freeze them in place. Even once the attack is stopped, recovery can be a colossal effort. Often ...

Profiling is controversial -- even among hackers. A project to develop profiles of different types of hackers has some researchers up in arms and others intrigued. The Hackers Profiling Project (HPP), ...

Imagine being able to sit behind a hacker and observe them take control of a computer and play around with it. That’s pretty much what two security researchers did thanks to a large network of ...

The media, journalists, and the public are prone to oversimplification. And hackers are no exception. Hackers get a bad rap in movies and TV shows. Their reputation is often that of a shadowy, ...