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 ...

Pakistan reported 98 cyberattacks in the first three months of 2026, targeting government institutions, businesses, and educational organizations, with website hacking and data leaks among the most ...

The SCO Group is no stranger to online attacks. The company has made a lot of enemies with its legal assault against Linux, and some have responded by going after its Web site. This time, though, ...

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 ...

A pair of researchers at the OWASP Europe 2009 conference on Wednesday showed how some Web application firewalls (WAFs) are prone to attack. Wendel Henrique, a member of SpiderLabs (Trustwave's ...

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 ...

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A hacking group has started to flood a dark web hacking marketplace with databases containing a combined total of 73.2 million user records over 11 different companies. For the past week, a hacking ...