Tag Archives: hackers

In March 2013, a coalition of spammers and spam-friendly hosting firms pooled their resources to launch what would become the largest distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack th... More

The release of spying code authored by one of the most sophisticated hacking groups in the world has prompted questions about whether Russia may be taunting the United States in an... More

I was somewhere around the Paris Hotel on the edge of the Las Vegas Strip when the paranoia began to take hold. I glanced down at my phone. Sitting in a talk by Lavabit CEO Ladar ... More

Katherine Archuleta, the director of the Office of Personnel Management, is the latest casualty of a data breach, but she's certainly not the only one. There's no job security when... More

More than half of organizations (58 percent) still lack the appropriate controls to prevent insider attacks, with just under half (44 percent) unaware if their organization has exp... More

At the Paris Hotel in Las Vegas, seven autonomous bots proved that hacking isn’t just for humans. The Paris ballroom played host to the Darpa Cyber Grand Challenge, the first h... More

Quantum computers could -- theoretically -- solve problems that traditional digital computers find impossible to handle. That means they could create an enormous security headache... More

Donald Trump’s muddled stance on hacking has disturbed security experts at time when the tech industry is looking for clarity on the U.S.'s cyber policy. On Wednesday, the outsp... More

There’s a lot more to the web than the cat-video-laden sites we normally see. In fact, according to most sources, the web that we can typically get to via our browser of choice r... More

Most organizations only grow in security maturity the hard way — that is, from the intense learning that takes place in the wake of a costly data breach. That may be because so f... More