Passwords are the primary key to our digital lives–providing the only barrier preventing sensitive data from being compromised in most cases. IT admins should think and act like a hacker to proactively identify weak passwords, and stay one step ahead of a data breach. The recent breach at Gawker,...

Okay, this is potentially very big news that really needs all the exposure it can get. OpenBSD's Theo de Raadt has received an email in which it was revealed to him that ten years ago, the FBI paid several open source developers to implement hidden backdoors in OpenBSD's IPSEC stack. De Raadt...

October 14, 2010 Nearly half of all home Wi-Fi networks in the UK could be hacked within five seconds, according to CPP. The life assistance company employed the services of ethical hacker Jason Hart to roam six major cities across the UK and use specially developed software to identify home networks...

The security researcher who found and reported this critical buffer overflow and memory corruption vulnerability in Mozilla’s Firefox browser is none other than Alex Miller, a 12-year-old boy who earned a $3,000 bounty for his discovery. [adsense_id="1"] According to the San Jose...

Some hypothesize that the main reason for the lack of Facebook’s dominance in China is due to government protectionism to help out local firms. Given Facebook’s success in the US and many western markets, I can certainly understand why they might have such a belief. However, when we look...

THE HACKER'S MANIFESTO OR THE CONSCIENCE OF A HACKER +++The Mentor+++ Written on January 8, 1986 published in Phrack Volume One, Issue 7, Phile 3 of 10   The following was written shortly after my arrest… Another one got caught today, it's all over the papers. "Teenager...