Posts tagged: hackers

Oracle issued an emergency fix today for vulnerabilities in its Java software about four months after Security Explorations, a security firm, warned the company about the bugs. The delay in providing a fix allowed more than 100,000 computers to get...

Inside a Maryland warehouse last week, Tiffany Rad was teaching a few dozen young people how to break into cars. It was nothing sinister — Rad is a security professional with a cool job: She hacks into cars full-time for...

As more patient records go digital, a recent hacker attack on a small medical practice shows the big risks involved with electronic files. The Surgeons of Lake County, located in the affluent northern Illinois suburb of Libertyville, revealed last month...

(This post was updated to clarify Microsoft’s involvement with Black Hat in the last graph.) A few minutes into Apple’s much-anticipated presentation at the Black Hat hacking conference in Las Vegas, it became clear that the secretive company intended on...

Few things are as scandalous at computer-hacker conferences as the presentations that don’t happen. Hackers face constant legal threats for their discoveries. So when someone plans to disclose an important security hole, but is forced to cancel the talk because...

(This post was updated with Apple declining to comment.) In the 15 years that computer hackers have gathered in Las Vegas for the Black Hat  conference, an event where unknowns can become stars and tech heavyweights are skewered for security...

When Robert Clark meets with large corporations and government agencies that have been hacked, many express the same feeling. They want revenge. But the impulse to strike back is fraught with legal danger, said Clark, operational attorney for the U.S....

When Jay Radcliffe went public last year with his discovery that some insulin pumps can be hacked, he didn’t expect it would take a year to get a meeting with the company that makes the vulnerable products. Yet that’s about...

Ever wonder where e-mail spam comes from? Cloudmark, a computer security firm, has made a video showing the world’s hottest spots for spammers over the past couple of weeks. While computers in the U.S., Europe and Asia are the main...

As the malware known as Flame has shown, hacking attacks are so sophisticated nowadays that it can be nearly impossible to detect whether your computer has been compromised. Unless it’s malicious software called Trojan.Milicenso. The malware isn’t new. It was...