Capital One Financial Corp. set up an email address for tipsters — including “white hat” hackers — to alert the company to potential vulnerabilities in its computer systems. On July 17, the company got a hit. “Hello there,” the email …
High-tech hackers brought in by the Pentagon to breach Defense Department websites were able to burrow in and find 138 different security gaps, Defense Secretary Ash Carter said Friday. The so-called white-hat hackers were turned loose on five public Pentagon …
Even as the U.S. questioned a computer researcher’s claims of tampering with a jetliner in flight, his account spotlighted possible cybersecurity risks in commercial aviation. The consultant told the Federal Bureau of Investigation that he hacked into in-flight networks more …
For most people, computer security means just that: Keeping viruses off your desktop or laptop, your PC or your Mac. But when Tadayoshi Kohno thinks of computers and security, he thinks about the vulnerabilities inherent in a whole range of …