Instructure confirms hackers used Canvas flaw to deface portals

Education technology giant Instructure has confirmed that a security vulnerability allowed hackers to modify Canvas login ...

Google Says Criminal Hackers Used A.I. to Find a Major Software Flaw

The company said that it had identified, for the first time, hackers using artificial intelligence to discover an unknown bug ...
BBC

Uber investigating hack on its computer systems

Uber's computer network has been hacked. The ride-hailing company said it was investigating after several internal communications and engineering systems had been compromised. The New York Times first ...
Security Boulevard

The Mythos Moment: When Hacking Tools Move from “Functional Fixedness” to “Divergent Hacker Thinking”

Hacking is often misunderstood as simply “breaking into computers.” But at its core, hacking is something broader and more fundamental: Hacking means making a system do something it was not meant to ...

Instructure hacker claims data theft from 8,800 schools, universities

The hacker behind a breach at education technology giant Instructure claims to have stolen 280 million data records for ...

AI models can hack computers and self-replicate onto new machines, new research finds

Scientists who observed AI chatbots copying themselves and launching hacking attacks in an experiment say ‘autonomous AI self ...
Security Boulevard

Betting on Cybercrime – Prediction Markets and Hacking

Cybercriminals are evolving from stealing data to "shaping the future" by leveraging prediction markets. By exploiting early access to disclosures, manipulating sensor data, or timing ransomware leaks ...
Sky

UK government and police servers vulnerable to new Microsoft email hack, security researchers say

Hackers are targeting Microsoft email servers after a series of vulnerabilities were detailed at a computer security conference earlier this month. Although software updates for these vulnerabilities ...
The Financial Times

Ethical hackers ‘hit the jackpot’ as tech groups pay for protection

Simply sign up to the Technology sector myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. In late 2019, Dawn Isabel was on the hunt for glitches and vulnerabilities in a particular mobile application.
BBC

The tech flaw that lets hackers control surveillance cameras

Chinese-made surveillance cameras are in British offices, high streets and even government buildings - and Panorama has investigated security flaws involving the two top brands. How easy is it to hack ...

Google warns quantum computers could hack encrypted systems by 2029

Banks, governments and tech providers urged to upgrade security because current systems will soon be obsolete ...
BBC

Five surprising facts about the history of hacking

Before the invention of the personal computer and the internet, a maverick species of technological spelunker – the phone phreak – explored, documented and played with an intricate technical system: ...