Tag: black hat
The best hacks and security research from Black Hat and Def Con 2024
Thousands of hackers, researchers and security professionals descended on the Black Hat and Def Con security conferences in Las Vegas this week, an...
CrowdStrike accepts award for ‘most epic fail’ after global IT outage
Just a few weeks after its software update triggered a global IT meltdown, CrowdStrike isn’t shying away from the spotlight. In fact, the company’s...
After global IT meltdown, CrowdStrike courts hackers with action figures and gratitude
On Wednesday morning, thousands of cybersecurity professionals swarmed the halls of the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas, the epicenter of the...
Security bugs in ransomware leak sites helped save six companies from paying hefty ransoms
A security researcher says six companies were saved from having to pay potentially hefty ransom demands, in part thanks to rookie security flaws...
Hackers could spy on cell phone users by abusing 5G baseband flaws, researchers say
A group of researchers say they have uncovered a series of security flaws in different 5G basebands — essentially processors used by cell...