Ethical hacking might sound like a contradiction in terms, but it’s actually an important tool when it comes to an organization's cyber security. An ethical hacker, also known as a white hat hacker, ...

In this excerpt from "The dotCrime Manifesto: How to Stop Internet Crime," security pioneer Phillip Hallam-Baker traces the development of the hacking culture from pranksters and bullies, to ...

While more companies are investing in beefing up their IT security, most cybersecurity practices are still reactive in their nature, relying on software tools to identify when a breach has happened – ...

Mark Zuckerberg during a 2011 meeting. The term ‘hacking’ dates back over 50 years, and ‘hacker’ was worn as a badge of honor. A scientist says the term took on a bad connotation due to Hollywood. AP ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. For the past eight years, the Bugcrowd hacking platform has ...

Hackers have largely received a bad reputation as people who illegally access information -- via a computer -- to use in unethical ways, disrupting systems in order to personally benefit, usually ...

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Artificial intelligence (AI) doesn’t stand a chance of being able to replicate the human creativity needed to become an ethical hacker, but it will disrupt how hackers conduct penetration testing and ...