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Definitionhacker

A hacker is an individual who uses computer, networking or other skills to overcome a technical problem.Read More

An explanation of ethical hackers

By Kaitlin Herbert 13 Nov 2024

Ethical hackers protect businesses by identifying vulnerabilities. They use the same techniques as malicious hackers, but for the greater good. Read More

Canadian authorities arrest alleged Snowflake hacker

By Arielle Waldman 05 Nov 2024

Alexander Moucka was arrested last week and is expected to appear in court Tuesday for allegedly breaching dozens of Snowflake customers. Read More

Russian hackers exploit Firefox, Windows zero-days in wild

By Alexander Culafi 26 Nov 2024

RomCom threat actors chain two Firefox and Windows zero-day vulnerabilities together in order to execute arbitrary code in vulnerable Mozilla browsers. Read More

Microsoft to offer hackers millions in Zero Day Quest event

By Alexander Culafi 19 Nov 2024

Microsoft launched Zero Day Quest on Tuesday with a preliminary event offering bug bounty researchers rewards with multipliers for select security scenarios. Read More

FBI: North Korean hackers targeting cryptocurrency employees

By Arielle Waldman 03 Sep 2024

North Korean state-sponsored threat actors have been conducting successful social engineering campaigns against cryptocurrency employees over the last several months. Read More

Types of hackers: Black hat, white hat, red hat and more

By Sharon Shea 28 Aug 2024

Black, white and gray hats are familiar to security pros, but as the spectrum evolves to include green, blue, red and purple, things get muddled. Brush up on types of hackers. Read More

Pure Storage hit by Snowflake credential hackers

By Alex Scroxton 11 Jun 2024

Pure Storage emerges as the latest victim of a fast-spreading breach of Snowflake customers targeting users with lax credential security measures in place Read More

KnowBe4 catches North Korean hacker posing as IT employee

By Arielle Waldman 24 Jul 2024

KnowBe4 says it hired a new principal security engineer for its internal AI team, but quickly detected suspicious activity originating from the employee's workstation. Read More

Israel’s cyber chief calls for international front against Iranian hackers

By Bill Goodwin 26 Jun 2024

Israel’s cyber chief has called for international action against Iran over state-backed hacking Read More

Microsoft: Nation-state hackers are exploiting ChatGPT

By Alex Scroxton 14 Feb 2024

Threat actors from China, Iran, North Korea and Russia have all been probing use cases for generative AI service ChatGPT, but have yet to use such tools in a full-blown cyber attack Read More