Project Sonar data reveals that thousands of rsync servers on the internet do not require authentication, potentially exposing the files and servers stored on those servers to anyone curious enough to take a look.
The Justice Department and FBI targeted 15 sites that offer DDoS-for-hire services and charged three men with running some of the sites.
The movie Hackers has become a cult classic more than 20 years after its release and helped introduce hacking to the general public.
Even with a regular software update cadence, some vulnerabilities are serious enough to warrant an emergency fix. Microsoft has released an out-of-band update addressing a remote code execution flaw in Internet Explorer.
More than six months after the European data privacy regulation went into effect, we still don’t know how effective GDPR will be at protecting data privacy.