Everything hackable will get hacked

Open-weight models that allow perform offensive research present an emerging cybersecurity challenge. But you do not need to wait for specialized models to begin defensive cybersecurity work.

My agent hacked my gym

I gave an AI agent permission to book gym classes. It found real vulnerabilities. That

A Great Deal of Information About Hacker News

Everything I personally know about the forum and news aggregator Hacker News spanning the site

My Homelab Got Hacked – A Postmortem

A postmortem on the hack of my self-hosted Forgejo instance and a reminder to patch your software.

Someone hacked the X algorithm with fable and shows how it works

Understanding the X (Twitter) algorithm — how the For You feed retrieves, ranks, filters, and distributes posts, and how to use every signal for maximum reach while avoiding hidden restrictions.

Valve emailed about a cyberattack against their shipping partner in Europe

If you ordered hardware from Valve in Europe recently, some of your details may have unfortunately been leaked.

The dumbest ransomware I've ever seen

A few days ago, I saw a Facebook post from an anonymous person who shared an APK for an app they claimed was an AI teaching app for high school students. The …

What Happened to HackerOne?

The rise and fall of the largest bug bounty platform in the world

Blender MCP maintainer GitHub account hacked

URGENT: My Github got hacked and all my ownership rights were stripped. Repositories like Blender MCP (25k stars) and Ableton MCP (2.6k stars) along with personal projects I'm working on have been taken away. Anyone at @github that can help?

Popular WPForms Lite put a backdoor in their plugin

Syed Balkhi (Awesome Motive) put a backdoor in WPForms Lite three weeks ago in version 2.0.0. The plugin runs on over 5 million sites. The file: wpforms-lite/src/SetupWizard/Bridge.php. What it does: It takes over your browser and opens their app on WPForms' servers. It hands

Sam Zeloof Home Chip Fab: Silicon IC Fabrication in the Garage – Hackaday [video]

IC and semiconductor fabrication techniques, tools, and processes that allow for mid 1970’s era device fabrication on a small budget in the home workshop.Hac...

The Hacker's Renaissance

Phrack is both a technical journal and a cultural document. Like all zines, it represents a snapshot of the scene at the time.