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3 nightmare election hack scenarios

Hackers could target e-voting machines' software update systems or simply try to delegitimatize the election

By Grant Gross

Oct 5, 2016 8 mins

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5 ways to improve voting security in the US

Voting officials can pump up their audits and hire white-hat hackers

By Grant Gross

Oct 5, 2016 5 mins

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RSA to feature talk by hacker whose ‘funny’ tweet got him yanked from a plane

FBI seizes his computers, external drives but lets Chris Roberts go

By Tim Greene

Apr 17, 2015 3 mins

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Florida teen charged with felony hacking for using password his teacher showed him

Never let it be said that Florida is light on cybercrime.

By Colin Neagle

Apr 10, 2015 3 mins

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Test-driving a hacker-for-hire website

I registered for a website that matches the hacker-seeking with those looking to provide hacker services. This is what I found.

By Patrick Nelson

Feb 11, 2015 3 mins

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LightCyber rolls out new features for endpoint malware detection platform

Magna Active Breach Detection speeds up detection of network incursions to clean them up faster

By Tim Greene

Jan 29, 2015 5 mins

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A patch is the catch: Cisco survey

Even after Heartbleed, most organizations are not patching security holes

By Jim Duffy

Jan 21, 2015 2 mins

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Warning to white-hat hackers: Obama proposal a threat to what you do

Obama’s changes to the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act could increase penalties, broaden what’s illegal for constructive researchers

By Tim Greene

Jan 20, 2015 3 mins

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ISIS apparently hacks U.S. Central Command Twitter account

Tweets threaten U.S. soldiers, families

By Tim Greene

Jan 12, 2015 2 mins

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Senate’s torture report will provoke hacktivist reprisals

Former military cyber-warfare commander predicts revelations of CIA's brutality and duplicity will spark denial-of-service attacks, site defacements

By Gregg Keizer

Dec 10, 2014 2 mins

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