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China state-sponsored cyber actor living off the land to evade detection [pdf]

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Belgium legalises ethical hacking

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The “invented persona” behind the GISAID viral sequence database

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Kelly ‘Aloria’ Lum has died

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Clifford Stoll beat the Russians, then made useless, wondrous objects (2016)

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Valve bans 40k Dota 2 accounts using honeypot patch

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How to own an airline in 3 easy steps and grab the TSA nofly list along the way

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Activision’s faulty anti-cheat software

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Hacker And The Fed

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The movie Hackers was released 27 years ago

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Happy 30th anniversary to ‘Sneakers,’ a cult classic that was ahead of its time

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Cybersecurity in 1989: Looking back at “The Cuckoo's Egg” (2015)

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911 Proxy Service Implodes After Disclosing Breach

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Workarounds to computer access in healthcare organizations (2015) [pdf]

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Leaked Chats Show Lapsus$ Stole T-Mobile Source Code

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Pirates spammed an infamous Soviet-era short-wave radio station with memes

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I automated my job over a year ago and haven't told anyone

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Hackers are spamming businesses’ receipt printers with ‘antiwork’ manifestos

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The Max Headroom Incident

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Doing Fraud on Securities Fraud

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Leave no trace: how a teenage hacker lost himself online

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Black Hat USA 2021 Review

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Man dies of a heart attack after minors swatted him over his rare Twitter handle

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How does one get hired by a top cybercrime gang?

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Rookie coding mistake prior to Gab hack came from site’s CTO

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Ticketmaster admits it hacked Songkick before it went out of business

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Virtual Cybersecurity Escape Room

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Beating Google ReCaptcha and the funCaptcha using AWS Rekognition

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After 10 years in tech isolation, I’m now outsider to things I once had mastered

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Love Bug worm's creator tracked down to repair shop in Manila

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Someone Is Stealing Tracker Songs and Selling Them

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The US Secret Service mistook a cyberpunk RPG for a hacker's handbook

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Jeff Bezos's phone 'hacked by Saudi crown prince'

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Your cyberpunk games are dangerous (2015)

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A Dropbox account gave me stomach ulcers

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Show HN: Hacker News Title Edit Tracker

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A Cybersecurity Firm’s Sharp Rise and Stunning Collapse

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Teen Hacker Finds Bugs in School Software That Exposed Millions of Records

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Eve Online’s communications blackout explained

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Inverview with Evan Ratliff, author of The Mastermind

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2.7M Medical Calls Breached in Sweden

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Twitter user hacks 50k printers to tell people to subscribe to PewDiePie

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Ticketmaster recruits pros for secret scalper program

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When Security Compromises Security – The Caesars/Defcon debacle

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SpiderOak removes its warrant canary

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A Japanese cyber-security expert who defended basic decency was stabbed to death

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A Hacker Has Wiped a Spyware Company’s Servers

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Vault 8 – Source code and analysis for CIA software projects

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Walking away from $30,000 of DJI bounty money [pdf]

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The Internet Worm of 1988

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Programmers who want to change how we code before catastrophe strikes

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CIA 'Angelfire' covert Windows malware system

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Salesforce fires red team staffers who gave Defcon talk

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Flush times for hackers in booming cyber security job market

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U.S. Defense Budget May Help Fund “Hacking for Defense” Classes at Universities

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Doxing the hero who stopped WannaCry was irresponsible and dumb

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Rejection Letter

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NYU Accidentally Exposed Military Code-Breaking Computer

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Grasshopper

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FBI arrests author of NanoCore after it was pirated and abused by hackers

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Wikileaks Vault 7 Release: Dark Matter

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Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego? Becoming a Secret Travel Agent [video]

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Mr. Robot Killed the Hollywood Hacker

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Microsoft previews Project Springfield, a cloud-based bug detector

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Cisco’s Network Bugs Are Front and Center in Bankruptcy Fight

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​72 Hours of Pwnage: A Paranoid N00b Goes to Def Con

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Carnegie Mellon’s Mayhem AI Wins DARPA’s Cyber Grand Challenge

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A Famed Hacker Is Grading Thousands of Programs

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How Hired Hackers Got “Complete Control” of Palantir

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A New Threat Actor Targets UAE Dissidents

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Mr. Robot Blind SQL Injection Vulnerability

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Man accidentally 'deletes his entire company' with one line of bad code

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Hackers and Heroes: Rise of the CCC and Hackerspaces

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Anonymous Divided: Inside the Two Warring Hacktivist Cells Fighting ISIS Online

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It’s Way Too Easy to Hack the Hospital

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John McAfee AMA

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The Mob's IT Department

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The Max Headroom TV Hack

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L0pht’s warnings about the Internet drew notice but little action

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The Hunt for the Financial Industry's Most-Wanted Hacker

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Your cyberpunk games are dangerous

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The 2011 DARPA Shredder Challenge

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Analysis of some of the IP addresses in the Sony hack

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Why the Sony hack is unlikely to be the work of North Korea

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The Mercenaries: Ex-NSA hackers are shaping the future of cyberwar

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Son of Stuxnet

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Fans raise cash to help phone phreaker John Draper, aka Cap‘n Crunch

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FTP Server at LSUHealth New Orleans

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Gamma FinFisher hacked: 40 GB of internal documents and source code published

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Meet ‘Project Zero,’ Google’s Secret Team of Bug-Hunting Hackers

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Cicada 3301

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Russian hacker engineered worldwide crime spree

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The boy who stole Half Life 2 source code (2011)

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One YouTube account's 77,000 mysterious videos

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Excerpt from ‘Flash Boys’ about Serge Aleynikov and Goldman Sachs

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The Fall of Hacker Groups

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GCHQ Used Fake LinkedIn Pages to Target Engineers (2013)

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Inside the Billion-Dollar Hacker Club

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Life of Brian (Krebs)

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Hacking Airline Lounges for Free Meals

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Belgian professor in cryptography hacked

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One Woman's Dangerous War Against the Most Hated Man on the Internet

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"Forensics for Prosecutors" mentions backdoor in TrueCrypt (page 15) [pdf]

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Hacker Barnaby Jack has died

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Japanese peer-to-peer (2008)

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Unbelievable

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How I attacked a fellow student

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Millennium Challenge 2002 - military simulation

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Rise and Fall of a Hacker Who Found the Secrets of the Next Xbox and PlayStation

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Y Combinator cofounder was convicted under CFAA in 1990

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Andrew Auernheimer case uncomfortably similar to Aaron Swartz case

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US employee 'outsourced job to China'

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AR Drone That Infects Other Drones With Virus Wins DroneGames

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Rockstar condemns Max Payne 3 cheaters to play only against each other

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Hacking an ATM

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Crypto breakthrough shows Flame was designed by world-class scientists

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We Got Hacked, Here's What We Found

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Stakeout: how the FBI tracked and busted a Chicago Anon

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"Anonymous" Hackers Take Down Child Porn Websites, Leak Users' Names

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Interview with key LulzSec hacker

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LulzSec Exposed

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Sony Music Brazil hacked

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This is What Irony Tastes Like: Capcom and the PSN Outage

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IRC chat log of PSN hackers

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Sony offers hacker a job. Hacker turns them down because of geoHot

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Is This The Girl That Hacked HBGary?

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The Boy Who Stole Half-Life 2

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Black ops: how HBGary wrote backdoors for the government

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How Aaron Barr revealed himself to Anonymous

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Malware researcher Dancho Danchev gone missing since August

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We need help with the disappearance of Security Researcher Dancho Danchev

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SSH scans - I caught one

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The Awful Anti-Pirate System That Will Probably Work

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Pirate Bay Founder Devises DDo$ Attack

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4chan hacker discusses the manipulation of the Time poll

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Last.fm: "Techcrunch are full of shit"

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Hackers know everything is securities fraud

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75% of Software Engineers Faced Retaliation Last Time They Reported Wrongdoing

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Max Headroom Signal Hijacking

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Inside Job: How a Hacker Helped Cocaine Traffickers Infiltrate Europe's Ports

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GTA 5 source code leaks online

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Cliff Stoll, the mad scientist who wrote the book on how to hunt hackers (2019)

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The xz backdoor thing reminds me of a story

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Discovering the xz backdoor with Andres Freund [audio]

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'Operation Endgame' Hits Malware Delivery Platforms

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Aphex Twin gave us a peek inside a 90s classic (2017)

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Room inspections at Resorts World confuse, annoy DEF CON attendees

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Bypassing airport security via SQL injection

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