The web has long been a playground for hackers, offering up hundreds of millions of public-facing servers to comb through for basic vulnerabilities to exploit. Now one hacker tool is about to take ...

When security researchers in the past found ways to hijack vehicles’ Internet-connected systems, their proof-of-concept demonstrations tended to show, thankfully, that hacking cars is hard. Exploits ...

The FBI and the Justice Department took down two websites linked to the pro-Iranian hacktivist group Handala, which last week ...

All it takes for a good scare this Halloween season is a search for "Halloween costumes": That query turns up legitimate Web pages that have been infected by the attackers, according to researchers at ...

Editor’s note: This article, originally published on Nov. 16, 2023, was removed from Reuters.com in response to a temporary injunction issued by a New Delhi district court on Dec. 4, 2023. Before ...

Experts seen a sharp increase in help-wanted ads for black hat hackers-for-hire. Here's what they are targeting and how to respond to the threat. “I need a site hacker for $2,000,” “Break this site ...

Stan is a Senior Editor at Mashable, where he has worked since 2007. He's got more battery-powered gadgets and band t-shirts than you. He writes about the next groundbreaking thing. Typically, this is ...