Chris Thompson's journey took him from hacking game controls as a teenager to founding IBM’s X-Force Red team.

Why every cyber security team needs a hacker mindsetBy Armand Kruger, Head of Cybersecurity at NEC XONIssued by Scarlet Letter for NEC XONJohannesburg, 01 Jul 2026 Breaches begin with curiosity.

One of the hot topics currently is using LLMs for security research. Poor quality reports written by LLMs have become the bane of vulnerability disclosure programs. But there is an equally interesting ...

Generative AI virtual assistant Amazon Q was unveiled by AWS CEO Adam Selipsky in 2023. Image: AWS A hacker recently injected code into Amazon Q in order to warn users of the platform’s potential ...

Hackers claim they stole 1.3TB of Novo Nordisk data, including clinical trial and AI model information, after issuing a $25 ...

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An ethical hacker who was just trying to get free Chicken McNuggets from McDonald's inadvertently uncovered numerous flaws within the fast-food giant's partner and employee portals that exposed ...

How can we spend so much on security and yet see such slow progress? Unlike most other infrastructure, we're not just fighting Murphy's law — our opposition is the creativity of other humans. Software ...

The Ukrainian police arrested a 35-year-old hacker who breached 5,000 accounts at an international hosting company and used them to mine cryptocurrency, resulting in $4.5 million in damages. "The ...

A dating app in India faced a serious security vulnerability that potentially exposed users' private chat images and ...

Crowdsourced cybersecurity platform company Bugcrowd Inc. today announced that it has acquired Mayhem Security, an artificial intelligence offensive security company, to advance the next generation of ...

ReversingLabs (RL), the trusted name in file and software security, today announced that Spectra Assure has been named Best Software Supply Chain Security Platform in the inaugural Hacker News ...