Cartoonish naming conventions for potentially catastrophic cyberattacks are dividing security professionals; ‘We’re not naming Care Bears’ ...

You may have recently heard about Lizard Squad, the hacker group that ruined Christmas for so many gamers. But you may be thinking to yourself, Lizard Squad is a really dumb name. And you’d be ...

A Hacker, by Many Other Names. Someone with the distinction could be a prankster, a computer programmer or a “real lively” cutter of stone. Share full article. 0.

What this code snippet does is pull a given number of headlines trending on Hacker News right now (I picked 50 so it wouldn’t hit the API too hard), strips out the proper nouns (i.e. all the words ...

The idea of open source within many enterprises remains a political issue. By using the term hacker, I'm afraid, Tiemann accidentally gave comfort to the other side.