Latest cybersecurity reporting from selected sources.

I'm dreaming of a white hat mass Opinion It was 40 years ago that four young British hackers set about changing the law, although they didn't know it at the time. It was a cross-platform attack including a ZX Spectrum, a BBC Micro, and a Tatung Einstein slamming British Telecom's Prestel service over dial-up modems at 75 bits per second.…

WormGPT 4 Sells for $50 Monthly, While KawaiiGPT Goes Open SourceThe cybercrime-as-a-service model has a new product line, with malicious large language models built without ethical guardrails selling on Telegram for $50 monthly or distributed free on GitHub. Others groups are taking the open-source route.

Live Hacking Event Offers New Insights Over Traditional TestingIn today's threat landscape, as attackers grow more sophisticated, organizations are finding that direct collaboration between ethical hackers and development teams offers advantages traditional testing methods can't always match.

Hacking Was the Easy Part, Notifying McDonald's the Extremely Difficult BitA security researcher gained access to McDonald's global marketing portal by changing a single word in its URL, uncovering a slew of additional vulnerabilities. The hard part was notifying the burger giant about the flaws, says self-described ethical hacker "BobDaHacker."

The Co-op is teaming up with The Hacking Games to inspire pathways into ethical cybersecurity careers

Politicians uneasy over potential impact on national security, local reports say Russia, home to some of the world's most lucrative and damaging cybercrime operations, has rejected a bill to legalize ethical hacking.…

Amnesty International said Serbian police used an exploit chain in tandem with legitimate mobile extraction dongle from vendor Cellebrite in an attack that brings up questions around ethical technology development.

Ethical hacking group Chaos Computer Club uncovered exposed data of electrical vehicle owners across the company's VW, Audi, Seat, and Skoda brands.

Engineer Dennis Giese on Hacking Robot Vacuum Cleaners and Running HackathonsDennis Giese, a security researcher and engineer, built his first computer at around age 8 using spare parts. Years later, he hacked his first robotic vacuum cleaner. Giese reflects on his journey as a researcher and ethical hacker during HardPwn, a hardware hackathon hosted by Hardwear.io in Amsterdam.

A new Bugcrowd study shows 71% of ethical hackers now see AI boosting hacking value, up from 21% in 2023

At Black Hat USA, security researcher Michael Bargury released a "LOLCopilot" ethical hacking module to demonstrate how attackers can exploit Microsoft Copilot — and offered advice for defensive tooling.

We Need Cryptocurrency Forensics Now More Than Ever BeforeA new analysis has unearthed that cryptocurrency scammers siphoned off a staggering $43.6 million in 2022. Those who enjoy forensics should have a field day in this domain. From ethical hacking to penetration testing and incident response, there are tons of well-paying opportunities.

Seven years into its ethical hacking program, the Pentagon received its 50,000th vulnerability report on March 15

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In two days, ethical researchers from 10 countries have unearthed more than 22 zero-day bugs in a wide range of technologies at the annual hacking contest.

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Which is pocket change compared to what criminals will pay for zero-days, but thankfully community spirit remains strong Pwn2Own paid out almost $1 million to bug hunters at last week's consumer product hacking event in Toronto, but the prize money wasn't big enough attract attempts at cracking the iPhone or Google Pixel because miscreants can score far more from less wholesome sources.…

For white hats who play by the rules, here are several ethical tenets to consider.

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