Imagine being able to sit behind a hacker and observe them take control of a computer and play around with it. That’s pretty much what two security researchers did thanks to a large network of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There are two main types of hackers — black hat hackers who commit cyber crimes and white hat hackers who try to prevent them. But ...

Profiling is controversial -- even among hackers. A project to develop profiles of different types of hackers has some researchers up in arms and others intrigued. The Hackers Profiling Project (HPP), ...

While it’s still true that hackers who are bent on gaining access to internal networks are a menace, IT managers have also discovered that another type of hacker – the ethical hacker – is an ...

Ask Western cybersecurity intelligence analysts who their "favorite" group of foreign state-sponsored hackers is—the adversary they can't help but grudgingly admire and obsessively study—and most ...