There is a scene in the movie Matchstick Men where the main character, played by Nicolas Cage, has this exchange with the a woman played by the actress Alison Lohman: Lohman: You don't seem like a bad ...

A good hacker knows that a good hack involves three things: 1. Vulnerability 2. Exploitation 3. Maintenance of access Talking to that secretary gave us a lot of information -- the antivirus vendor and ...

Scientists are reverse engineering the galaxy. So why is it illegal to reverse engineer a DVD player or the iPhone? Even the debate pitting creationism against evolution never raises the argument that ...

Social engineering tops the list of the 10 most popular hacking methods, a security industry survey has shown. More than 70% of almost 500 IT security experts polled by European security technology ...

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Katie Paxton-Fear is neurodiverse (‘autistic’, she says). It’s a common, but not causal, condition among hackers. Autism ...