SecurityWeek

Hacker Conversations: Katie Paxton-Fear Talks Autism, Morality and Hacking

Katie Paxton-Fear is neurodiverse (‘autistic’, she says). It’s a common, but not causal, condition among hackers. Autism ...
Wired

How China’s Patriotic ‘Honkers’ Became the Nation’s Elite Cyberspies

In the summer of 2005, Tan Dailin was a 20-year-old grad student at Sichuan University of Science and Engineering when he came to the attention of the People’s Liberation Army of China. Tan was part ...
NPR

Why this is China's golden age of hacking

Cyberattacks backed by the Chinese government are increasing. The Department of Justice indicted two hackers earlier this month and charged them with spying on behalf of the Chinese government. Dakota ...
Reuters

Microsoft server hack hit about 100 organizations, researchers say

WASHINGTON/LONDON, July 21 (Reuters) - A sweeping cyber espionage operation targeting Microsoft (MSFT.O), opens new tab server software compromised about 100 organizations as of the weekend, two of ...