We just love a good DIY tool project, and more so when it’s something that we can actually use cobbled together from stuff in our closet, or hacked out of cheap “toys”. This week we saw both a superb ...

I recently heard of yet another penetration test in which the vendor charged $150,000 for two days of testing. It seemed pretty expensive to me, but I assumed that the testers must have brought in ...

Apple is telling its global customer base that a new class of hacking tools is no longer a niche problem for dissidents and ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Serial technology CEO covering all things IT & Tech. Hacking has long been a game of cat and mouse — attackers innovate, defenders ...

Generative AI promises a future where you no longer need to be a skilled writer to draft a story or a trained software engineer to code. But there’s a dark side to this democratization: AI is enabling ...

A man convicted of carrying out one of the most damaging data breaches in the CIA's history — the public disclosure of secret hacking tools — was sentenced to 40 years in federal prison Thursday, ...

The Cult of the Dead Cow hacker group has released an open-source tool designed to enable IT workers to quickly scan their Web sites for security vulnerabilities and at-risk sensitive data, using a ...

Some readers ask me how a hacking tool like Cain & Able can be legal? I always reply, most malicious hackers don’t use Cain & Able. They already have their hacking tools. Cain & Able just makes it ...

I like lists. I tend to break down many different topics into a list format. Mentally, it is in CSS format and without a doubt marketing speak is equal to a SQL injection attack in my ole gourd. Be ...

The stranger messaging Matthew Van Andel online last July knew a lot about him—including details about his lunch with co-workers at Disney from a few days earlier. His mind raced; he knew no one ...

This transcript was prepared by a transcription service. This version may not be in its final form and may be updated. Charlotte Gartenberg: Welcome to Tech News Briefing. It's Wednesday, March 5th. I ...