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Colbert Wants the Feds to Hire Kevin Mitnick, Legendary Hacker

Kevin Mitnick, one of the individuals included in eWEEK's Top Hackers slideshow, appeared on Comedy Central's Colbert Report on Aug. 18. Mitnick, on a...

Google Analyzes Malware Activity for Attackers’ Tactics: Report

in a report based on four years of Web data, Google researchers found that attackers are deploying highly specialized evasion and obfuscation techniques to...

Verizon Strikers Accused of Sabotaging Network

About 45,000 Verizon landline workers from Massachusetts to Virginia went on strike Aug. 7, fighting management demands for contract givebacks. With the rise in...

Data Analysis of myBART Info Reveals Weak Passwords

Identity Finder released a detailed analysis of the data hacktivist collective Anonymous released Aug. 14 after successfully breaching the myBART.org Website. The attack on...

Hackers Submit Attacks to RankMyHack, Get Rated

Following the tradition of Hot or Not and other sites that ask the Internet masses to rank and rate various things, a United Kingdom-based...

Diabetic Black Hat Researcher Hacks Insulin Pump

Cyber-attacks are no longer limited to just computers. At Black Hat, a security researcher discussed how an attacker with a powerful antenna could launch...

Aerial Drone Sniffs, Attacks Wireless Networks at Black Hat

Two security researchers demonstrated how to outfit a radio-controlled model airplane with a computer and 4G connectivity to create a nearly undetectable aerial hacking...

War Texting Remotely Unlocks, Starts Cars at Black Hat

Modern automobiles are increasingly becoming more like computers, with features such as the in-car navigation system and multiple sensors tracking the fuel tank and...

Facebook Joins Google, Mozilla, Barracuda in Paying Bug Bounties

Facebook has joined the handful of companies who pay bug bounties to researchers who discover vulnerabilities.Most Website flaws, such as cross-site scripting, cross-site request...

Security Tips to Not Get Hacked at Black Hat

Writing about information security, I tend to be very paranoid. This is a good thing as it means I am creating complicated passwords, regularly...