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The AI-Powered Hacking Spree Is Here

It turns out AI-coding tools are useful to criminals, too.
A hobbyist accidentally hacked 7,000 DJI robot vacuums using a PlayStation controller, revealing major flaws in smart home ...
Vulnerabilities in Anthropic’s Claude Code tool could have allowed attackers to silently gain control of a developer’s computer.
In a new paper, Anthropic reveals that a model trained like Claude began acting “evil” after learning to hack its own tests.
Middle and high school students from across San Diego County gathered at The Bishop’s School in La Jolla for the first local student-led hack-a-thon. But it wasn’t the kind of hacking you might see in ...
DAVENPORT, Iowa — Dozens of kids packed the Davenport RiverCenter on Saturday for the 11th annual CornCon Cybersecurity Conference’s youth program, Children of the CornCon. The camp introduced kids to ...
Palatine-Schaumburg High School District 211’s popular student-led Hack-A-Thon returned in April, the first in post-pandemic times. Student coders programmed for hours, arriving at 8 a.m. and staying ...
For years, businesses believed a simple rule: If you had backups, you were protected. That idea worked when attacks were slow and predictable, and when recovery meant swapping hardware or restoring a ...
Vibe coding has become one of the biggest buzzwords in AI in recent months. Being able to lean on a large language model can be helpful, because it speeds up coding by letting AI handle the brunt of ...
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Hacking: The Art of Exploitation, 2nd Edition (Jon Erickson, No Starch Press, 2008) is an intense, thorough and extremely well written book that can take you from basic hacking concepts to building ...