Hacking News

Over soggy scrambled eggs at the Hyatt Regency in Lexington, Kentucky, Tor Ekeland is doing his best to cheer up Deric Lostutter, a 30-year-old hacker who is about to be sentenced to federal prison. “It’s terrifying,” Lostutter says. Read more

The sensors built into your phone could help a hacker correctly guess your PIN in just three attempts. Researchers have built a new algorithm that reveals a person’s passcode using data from six smartphone sensors. This data allows hackers to study the tilt of the phone and how much light is being blocked by the

Not so long ago, the internet often felt like a fully detached realm of ephemeral fun. Today, we wake up to tweets from a president that seem intended to goad a rogue state into nuclear war. Hackers launch ransomware worms that tear across the globe in a matter of hours, paralyzing massive multinational infrastructure companies.

Konstantin Kozlovsky, who is currently in jail for stealing millions from Russian banks, has previously claimed that his attacks on the DNC were ordered by the FSB, a Russian intelligence agency known to recruit young hackers to do its digital dirty work. Read more

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States has charged two Romanian nationals, alleging that they hacked the Washington police department’s surveillance cameras days before U.S. President Donald Trump’s Jan. 20 inaugurations, the Department of Justice said on Thursday. Read more

The first primary of the 2018 midterm elections, in Texas, is barely eight weeks away. It’s time to ask: Will the Russian government deploy “active measures” of the kind it used in 2016? Read more

In the summer of 2016, seven hacking machines traveled to Las Vegas with their human creators. They were there to compete in a global-hacking event: the DARPA-sponsored Cyber Grand Challenge designed for machines that can hack other machines. The winner would take home $2 million (£1.5m). Read more

Kim manages a program called Best of the Best, the goal of which is to train the next generation of so-called white-hat hackers, netizens with elite cybersecurity skills who are able and willing to defend South Korea against malicious hacking attacks, many of which are believed to come from North Korea. Read more

VCs have invested more than $2.7 billion into cybersecurity companies so far this year, funding a new round of startups in a market that already supports more than 1,400 vendors, according to estimates. Most experts agree that despite skyrocketing market growth, not all of these startups will survive Read more

It’s easy to frame identity theft as a personal experience because identity theft has clear personal consequences and a tangible personal impact. Here’s the thing, though: Identity theft isn’t personal. It’s business. Read more