Peter Williams, the former head of U.S. hacking tools maker L3Harris Trenchant, was sentenced to seven years in prison for stealing and selling his former company’s hacking and surveillance tools to a ...

Cellebrite, which makes phone unlocking and hacking tools, stopped sales to countries that allegedly abused its tools. But ...

Artificial intelligence tools are helping hackers find and exploit vulnerable systems more quickly, and accelerate everything ...

The U.S. Treasury Department has sanctioned a Russian exploit broker who bought stolen hacking tools from a former executive of a U.S. defense contractor.

AI pentesting grows with chatbot adoption, with free Arcanum labs and Docker setups, a practical path for beginners. Ethical ...

If you've ever dreamed of carrying an all‑in‑one gadget that can open your garage door, play a round of chess, or even poke at systems you probably shouldn't, the Flipper Zero might be your new ...

North Korean hacking groups, operating under international sanctions, have been using AI tools like OpenAI’s “ChatGPT” and ...

The wildly popular Metasploit hacking tool for the first time is now officially open source, open-license technology that can be incorporated into commercial tools. The free research and penetration ...

Some readers ask me how a hacking tool like Cain & Able can be legal? I always reply, most malicious hackers don’t use Cain & Able. They already have their hacking tools. Cain & Able just makes it ...

Generative AI promises a future where you no longer need to be a skilled writer to draft a story or a trained software engineer to code. But there’s a dark side to this democratization: AI is enabling ...

I’ve been writing about technology since 2012, focusing on privacy. With companies vying for user data, AI skimming it for tools, and countless bad actors seeking to exploit it, safeguarding the ...