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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Computer security conferences tend to be male-dominated affairs. It’s not that women aren’t present, but just not anywhere near their normal proportional representation in society. To address 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 ...

Michael Robertson, CEO of software company Lindows, has revealed himself as the formerly anonymous donor of $200,000 in prize money in a contest to translate the Linux operating system to Microsoft's ...

The City of Santa Monica and Santa Monica Chamber of Commerce have partnered with local businesses to create a series of events titled Hack the Beach: The Contest. Hack the Beach: The Contest aims to ...

A delayed flight didn't stop Vincenzo Iozzo and Ralf Weinmann from scoring a cool US$15,000, a brand-new iPhone and a trip to Las Vegas at the annual Pwn2Own hacking contest in Vancouver on Wednesday.

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 ...