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.

China's spy agencies are using talent competitions to recruit young hackers for cyberattacks on the US. The revelation comes in a new report that has shed fresh light on the secretive state's "hack ...

The City By The Sea is welcoming problem solving proposals from Silicon Beach. Santa Monica has opened applications for the 2017 Hack The Beach contest designed to leverage the skills of the local ...

A hacking contest slated for next month will award cash prizes of $10,000 to anyone who can break into the most popular smartphones, including Apple’s iPhone and Research in Motion’s BlackBerry. The ...

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 ...

The Samsung Galaxy S23 was hacked twice on the first day of Toronto’s Pwn2Own contest. The device was running the latest Android software version and security patches. Researchers also breached the ...

For a little more than a decade now, DonorsChoose has been linking interested donors with needy public-school classrooms across the United States. It works like Kickstarter: Teachers describe a ...