GovInfoSecurity

AI Agents Hack Systems Without Being Asked

Be careful telling AI agents how to act, since they might end up hacking their way to an end goal. Agents assigned routine enterprise tasks are independently
Forbes

What Is Ethical Hacking? Using Hacking Techniques For Good

Ethical hacking might sound like a contradiction in terms, but it’s actually an important tool when it comes to an organization's cyber security. An ethical hacker, also known as a white hat hacker, is a security professional who, at the request of a ...
WPBF

Elections software company VR Systems received Russian phishing emails before 2016 election

AND REELECTED IN 2020. ALSO ELECTION RELATED AND NEW AT SIX MAJOR QUESTIONS TONIGHT ABOUT THE TALLAHASSEE COMPANY THAT PROVIDED THE SOFTWARE CAUSING MANY COUNTY ELECTIONS WEBSITES TO FREEZE LAST NIGHT. THE SYSTEMS PUT OUT A STATEMENT EXPLAINING THE PROBLEM ...
The New York Times

Federal Courts Slow to Fix Vulnerable System After Repeated Hacking

After a 2020 breach thought to be Russia’s work, the courts told Congress that they would harden a system storing sealed documents. Five years later, the system was hacked again. By Mattathias Schwartz Mattathias Schwartz reports on the federal judiciary.

Hacker unveils exploit that cracks the "unbreakable" Xbox One at the silicon level

The demonstration marks the first public, reproducible breach of the Xbox One's hardware-level defenses, a milestone in console hacking that recalls the famous Reset Glitch Hack