Hacking | IT Brew

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Should the private sector be able to hack foreign cybercriminals?

“From the government’s perspective, it’s really opening the aperture of what they have available,” one expert says of the new program.

Brianna Monsanto

Nissan data breach in Oracle PeopleSoft attack offers cybersecurity lessons

Mapping internal- and external-facing systems is key to helping mitigate attacks.

Caroline Nihill

U.S. china tensions chess board

China works with its cybersecurity researchers—can the US do the same?

“I think there is something to be learned from how different nations are addressing these issues,” one expert tells IT Brew.

The Synacktiv team hacking a Tesla modem.

High-speed scenes from a car-hacking competition

ZDI’s Dustin C. Childs describes the complicated excitement of hacking today’s cars.

Five satellites orbiting the earth.

Hackers compete to break into the Space Force’s Moonlighter satellite

DEF CON 31’s Hack-A-Sat 4 competition was intended as a wakeup call that aerospace is vulnerable.

A computer getting hacked

Pentesters on the most common vulnerabilities they find in networks

Hackers love configuration errors.

A person uses a computer in a darkened office.

An important step in penetration testing: Vet the tester

IT pro Sue Bergamo looks for a background check.

Your AI strategy has a security problem: 43% of IT leaders now cite security concerns as the top barrier to expanding AI agent deployment, according to research from JumpCloud. Before giving agents more access to apps, data, and workflows, make sure you can govern the identities behind them. See how to secure every identity, human or not.