In the world of Internet marketing, SEO, or search engine optimization, is widely used because customers are more likely to trust and click on the first link that pops up from a search. Search engines ...

White Hat Hackers are the ‘good’ part of the entire hacker community. These hackers are generally employed to act like the bad guys and find any loopholes in the system that might be vulnerable to ...

Since the arrival of the internet and the explosive growth of free email accounts and online shopping, the marketplace for cybercrime has grown exponentially. Gone are the days when malware was spread ...

For a long time, most computer network crackers hacked a system for the same reason George Mallory climbed Mt. Everest: "Because it's there." But that's no longer the only reason or even the dominant ...

Everybody and their brother has been reporting for weeks that the Israel-based firm Cellebrite assisted the Federal Bureau of Investigation with unlocking the iPhone used by Syed Farook, one of two ...

After much speculation over who provided the FBI with the mysterious solution for hacking into the San Bernardino iPhone, the Washington Post reported this week that it was a "gray hat" hacker who ...

Kevin Finisterre admits that he likes to hew close to the ethical line separating the "white hat" hackers from the bad guys, but little did he know that his company's actions would draw threats of a ...

I advise security companies that have demonstrated cybersecurity technologies far superior than those generally offered today, So why aren't we using them? The reasons have little to do with ...

Alexander Slagg is a freelance writer specializing in technology and education. He is an ongoing contributor to the CDW family of magazines. Large organizations in the U.S. were queried by Osterman ...