Latest cybersecurity reporting from selected sources.

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.

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.

Well, that clears things up? Maybe not. The US Justice Department has directed prosecutors not to charge "good-faith security researchers" with violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) if their reasons for hacking are ethical — things like bug hunting, responsible vulnerability disclosure, or above-board penetration testing.…