Add DMNews to your Google News feed. Tension: Inexperienced hackers crave shortcuts to power, yet the very tools that promise a shortcut often flip and claim the hackers as victims. Noise: Forums and ...

Marc Maiffret knew it was time to grow up when he awoke one morning in 1998 to an FBI agent holding a gun to his head. "All that hacking had caught up with me," says Maiffret, CTO and chief hacking ...

It takes time to win the trust of hackers who hang out online. For the last six weeks I have kept strange company. I have mixed with ewhores, quizzed hardened hackers, asked account hijackers how ...

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new campaign attributed to the Chinese "Tropic Trooper" hacking group, which employs a novel loader called Nimbda and a new variant of the Yahoyah trojan.