Cow skulls on a wall. (Getty Images) How the Cult of the Dead Cow plans to save the internet The "original hacking supergroup" is trying to design tools to rebuild the internet from the ground up. Sep 25, 2023 By Christian Vasquez
Getty Images US intelligence research agency examines cyber psychology to outwit criminal hackers An Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity project looks to study hackers' psychological weaknesses and exploit them. May 30, 2023 By Elias Groll
Photo by Scott Eisen/Getty Images Rethinking democracy for the age of AI We need to recreate our system of governance for an era in which transformative technologies pose catastrophic risks as well as great promise. Feature May 10, 2023 By Bruce Schneier
Space Rogue’s work area inside the L0pht hackerspace in Boston. (Photo courtesy of Cris Thomas) Phreaks and l33ts: Inside the early ‘90s tech scene that created L0pht, the legendary hackerspace The hackers of LOpht testified before Congress and went on to shape today’s cybersecurity industry. This is the story of how it started. Feb 5, 2023 By Cris Thomas
President Biden listens to IBM CEO Arvind Krishna as he tours the IBM facility in Poughkeepsie, New York, on Oct. 6. IBM’s CEO Arvind Krishna announced a $20 billion investment in quantum computing, semiconductor manufacturing and other high-tech areas in its New York state facilities. (Photo by MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images) The quantum computing threat is real. Now we need to act. Washington should strive to become the dominant power in quantum information sciences. Otherwise, the U.S. will be dangerously at risk. Oct 20, 2022 By Susan M. Gordon John Richardson Mike Rogers
A police officer enters 10 Downing Street, the official residence of Britain’s Prime Minister, in central London on July 8, 2022. (Photo by CARLOS JASSO/AFP via Getty Images) British teen arrested in hacking case British police arrested a 17-year-old from Thursday as part of a hacking investigation, the City of London Police announced Friday. Sep 23, 2022
BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA – MARCH 17: Coins of Bitcoin are offered as merchandising in an exchange shop on March 17, 2022, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. (Photo by Ricardo Ceppi/Getty Images) Treasury Department sanctions cryptocurrency ‘mixer’ Tornado Cash Treasury accused the mixer of failing to stop laundering from malicious cyber actors including North Korea's Lazarus Group. Aug 8, 2022 By Tonya Riley
The Treasury Department sanctioned Blender, a virtual currency mixer which it says North Korean cybercriminals used to launder $20.5 million stolen as part of a $620 million heist which exploited users of the Pokemon-inspired blockchain game Axie Infinity. (image via Axie Infinity) Hackers steal more than $600M from Ronin blockchain used to play Axie Infinity It's one of the largest crypto heists in history. Mar 29, 2022 By Suzanne Smalley
(Photo by Chesnot/Getty Images) Microsoft investigating hacking group’s claims of successful breach Cybercrime organization Lapsus$ posted suspicious screenshots. Microsoft officials said they are "aware of the claims and are investigating." Mar 21, 2022
(Getty Images) New details emerge on prolific Conti-linked cybercrime group Google's Threat Analysis Group is calling the hackers Exotic Lily, and it says they employed relatively novel tactics. Mar 17, 2022