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, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. There is a long and ongoing debate within the info security ...

That's only black hat hacking. Believe it or not, there are good hackers, known as white hat hackers. The term allegedly originates from old westerns where the good guys wore white hats and the bad ...

Imagine this. It's Monday at 9 a.m. The CEO of a major company receives a notification that all systems have been encrypted. The ransomware group behind the attack demands $30 million paid within 72 ...

This summer, Russia’s hackers put a new twist on the barrage of phishing emails sent to Ukrainians. The hackers included an attachment containing an artificial intelligence program. If installed, it ...

A server memory leak that allowed security researchers to quietly snoop on the recently disrupted DanaBot Russian malware-as-a-service (MaaS) operation for nearly three years has once again shown how ...

A man in a black hoodie wearing a Guy Fawkes mask sits in a dark room, face lit up forebodingly by his laptop screen. He types furiously, laying down dozens of lines of code. After a few moments go by ...