Now, Israeli startup Tenzai says that earlier this month its AI hacker performed better than 99% of the 125,000 human competitors who faced off in a series of six so-called capture the flag (CTF) ...

A pair of Gartner analysts today denounced a recent hack challenge that uncovered a still-unpatched QuickTime bug, calling it “a risky endeavor” and urging sponsors to reconsider such public contests.

A delayed flight didn't stop Vincenzo Iozzo and Ralf Weinmann from scoring a cool US$15,000, a brand-new iPhone and a trip to Las Vegas at the annual Pwn2Own hacking contest in Vancouver on Wednesday.

One year after launching a controversial Macintosh hacking contest, the promoters of the CanSecWest security research conference are thinking about giving hackers another shot at cracking the Mac.

A new hacking competition called Zeroday Cloud, focused on open-source cloud and AI tools, announced a total prize pool of $4.5 million in bug bounties for researchers that submit exploits for various ...

The MacBook Air went first; a tiny Fujitsu laptop running Vista was hacked on the last day of the contest; but it was Linux, running on a Sony Vaio, that remained undefeated as conference organizers ...

The cyber security team at Broadcom has acknowledged that during the Pwn2Own hacking contest in Berlin in March, there were three successful attacks on the VMware hypervisor. On 16 March, Nguyen Hoang ...

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A pair of Gartner analysts feel that such contests can pose an unnecessary risk or even short-circuit the proper security-patching process A pair of Gartner analysts Tuesday denounced a recent hack ...

After staging a controversial Mac-hacking contest last year, CanSecWest may expanding its horizons and add Linux and Vista contests as well One year after launching a controversial Macintosh hacking ...