I recently heard of yet another penetration test in which the vendor charged $150,000 for two days of testing. It seemed pretty expensive to me, but I assumed that the testers must have brought in ...

Hackers are sometimes used as consultants to help companies improve their digital security. Referred to as ethical hackers, they use hacking software to test your systems to see if they’re vulnerable ...

A newly discovered malware campaign suggests that hackers have themselves become the targets of other hackers, who are infecting and repackaging popular hacking tools with malware. Cybereason’s Amit ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. At a recent Las Vegas hacker confab, Defcon, attendees ...

Generative AI promises a future where you no longer need to be a skilled writer to draft a story or a trained software engineer to code. But there’s a dark side to this democratization: AI is enabling ...

Guidelines published this week by the Crown Prosecution Service on how to interpret amendments to the Computer Misuse Act have been branded "confused" by a renowned security expert. The Computer ...

Chinese intelligence agents acquired National Security Agency hacking tools and repurposed them in 2016 to attack American allies and private companies in Europe and Asia, a leading cybersecurity firm ...

The first iPhone worm, Ikee, was just a bit of fun -- unless you have an irrational fear of Rick Astley. But Intego, a Mac security company, reports that a new piece of malware for jailbroken iPhones ...