Tag: Hackers & Hacking
Hackers & Hacking is a very broad tag group that includes various shades of hackers (white, grey and black hat) and their exploits. Traditionally, hacking was what someone did to figure out how something works and how to make it better, it is still that for many. However, the modern usage is now typically carries a negative connotation.
Usage here is in the broad sense with both traditional and modern usages. It’s a catch-all. Posted content is more closely identified with other associated tags.
The Ransomware Hunting Team: A Band of Misfits’ Improbable Crusade to Save the World from Cybercrime
A real-life technological thriller about a band of eccentric misfits taking on the biggest cybersecurity threats of our time.
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Hacking Russia was off-limits. The Ukraine war made it a free-for-all
Experts anticipated a Moscow-led cyber-assault; instead, unprecedented attacks by hacktivists and criminals have wreaked havoc in Russia
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Russia’s Sandworm Hackers Have Built a Botnet of Firewalls
Western intelligence services are raising alarms about Cyclops Blink, the latest tool at the notorious group’s disposal.
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Hacktivists Stoke Pandemonium Amid Russia’s War in Ukraine
A wave of cyberattacks meant to make a statement and particularly buoy Ukraine could have unintended consequences.
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How China built a one-of-a-kind cyber-espionage behemoth to last
A decade-long quest to become a cyber superpower is paying off for China.
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The $1 billion Russian cyber company that the US says hacks for Moscow
Washington has sanctioned Russian cybersecurity firm Positive Technologies. US intelligence reports claim it provides hacking tools and runs operations for the Kremlin.
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‘Ghostwriter’ Looks Like a Purely Russian Op—Except It’s Not
Security researchers have found signs that the pervasive hacking and misinformation campaign comes not from Moscow but from Minsk.
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Russia’s Cyber Threat to Ukraine Is Vast—and Underestimated
The Kremlin’s web of nonstate hackers can wreak just as much havoc as Putin’s government.
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The Russian Sleuth Who Outs Moscow’s Elite Hackers and Assassins
Roman Dobrokhotov has been playing a dangerous game for a Russian reporter: identifying agents of the GRU military intelligence agency.
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The US is unmasking Russian hackers faster than ever
The White House was quick to publicly blame Russia for a cyberattack against Ukraine, the latest sign that cyber attribution is a crucial tool in the American arsenal.
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Sneaky Zero-Click Attacks Are a Hidden Menace
Hacks that can play out without any user interaction may be more common than we realize, in part because they’re so difficult to detect.
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Commerce Department announces new rule aimed at stemming sale of hacking tools to Russia and China
“We’re trying to walk the line between not impairing legitimate cybersecurity collaboration across borders, but trying to make sure these pieces of hardware and software technology aren’t obtained and used by repressive governments,” the senior official said.
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Inside the Microsoft team tracking the world’s most dangerous hackers
From Russian Olympic cyberattacks to billion-dollar North Korean malware, how one tech giant monitors nation-sponsored hackers everywhere on earth.
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The hacker-for-hire industry is now too big to fail
This is a big moment of turbulence and change for the hacking business. But the demand is here to stay.
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Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World’s First Digital Weapon
A top cybersecurity journalist tells the story behind the virus that sabotaged Iran’s nuclear efforts and shows how its existence has ushered in a new age of warfare—one in which a digital attack can have the same destructive capability as a megaton bomb.
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Inside the FBI, Russia, and Ukraine’s failed cybercrime investigation
Russia and Ukraine promised to cooperate and help catch the world’s most successful hackers. But things didn’t quite go to plan.
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Inside NSO, Israel’s billion-dollar spyware giant
The world’s most notorious surveillance company says it wants to clean up its act. Go on, we’re listening.
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Jen Easterly Wants Hackers to Help US Cyber Defense
The new director of the US Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency, Jen Easterly, joined WIRED contributing editor Garrett Graff to talk about hacking and misinformation on a global scale and how to combat the ever-evolving nature of cyberattacks.
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When Hackers Were Heroes
What was exceptional about MIT was not that it had a computer or that unkempt programmers were devising impressive tricks. It was that MIT had enough computers that a couple of surplus machines could be left out for members of the community to play with.
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