The UK’s Ministry of Defence (MoD) has just completed a 30-day bug bounty challenge which opened its systems to probing by ethical hackers. Bug bounty programs are designed to challenge “white hat” ...

While more companies are investing in beefing up their IT security, most cybersecurity practices are still reactive in their nature, relying on software tools to identify when a breach has happened – ...

Overview Foundational certifications for ethical hacking help to build practical skills and basic knowledge for beginners in this field.Despite criticism for be ...

Most people see hackers as evil, but companies also use hackers to find and fix weaknesses in their systems. These ethical hackers—also known as "white hat hackers"—use the same techniques as regular ...

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, ...

Why do people become ethical hackers? Given the negative connotations that the word “hacker” has unfortunately acquired over the past few decades, it's tough to understand why anyone would ascribe ...

Yesterday, developers took notice of two hugely popular Python and PHP libraries, respectively, 'ctx' and 'PHPass' that had been hijacked, as first reported in the news by BleepingComputer. Both of ...