China's spy agencies are using talent competitions to recruit young hackers for cyberattacks on the US. The revelation comes in a new report that has shed fresh light on the secretive state's "hack ...

The City By The Sea is welcoming problem solving proposals from Silicon Beach. Santa Monica has opened applications for the 2017 Hack The Beach contest designed to leverage the skills of the local ...

Computer-savvy teenagers are testing their skills in cyber-contests designed to teach them how to protect the government and private companies from hackers. The events are sprouting up across the ...

A pair of Gartner analysts today denounced a recent hack challenge that uncovered a still-unpatched QuickTime bug, calling it “a risky endeavor” and urging sponsors to reconsider such public contests.

Cybercriminals can be inventive—especially if there’s money on the table. One hacker has penned a 50-page essay on how to invest in cryptocurrency and sell at the right time to make a profit. Another ...

Computer security conferences tend to be male-dominated affairs. It’s not that women aren’t present, but just not anywhere near their normal proportional representation in society. To address the ...

For a little more than a decade now, DonorsChoose has been linking interested donors with needy public-school classrooms across the United States. It works like Kickstarter: Teachers describe a ...

After staging a controversial Mac-hacking contest last year, CanSecWest may expanding its horizons and add Linux and Vista contests as well One year after launching a controversial Macintosh hacking ...

A delayed flight didn't stop Vincenzo Iozzo and Ralf Weinmann from scoring a cool US$15,000, a brand-new iPhone and a trip to Las Vegas at the annual Pwn2Own hacking contest in Vancouver on Wednesday.

A hacking contest slated for next month will award cash prizes of $10,000 to anyone who can break into the most popular smartphones, including Apple’s iPhone and Research in Motion’s BlackBerry. The ...

A pair of Gartner analysts feel that such contests can pose an unnecessary risk or even short-circuit the proper security-patching process A pair of Gartner analysts Tuesday denounced a recent hack ...