If you’re going to do something — especially something to push forward your career — you should commit to doing it right. That usually means making sure you’ve got all the materials you’ll need to ...

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The cyber security industry is growing at a rapid pace, which means there are a lot of opportunities to find work for aspiring IT specialists. To get your feet wet and start learning the foundational ...

Hacking: The Art of Exploitation, 2nd Edition (Jon Erickson, No Starch Press, 2008) is an intense, thorough and extremely well written book that can take you from basic hacking concepts to building ...

If you've ever had your security compromised online, take heart. Judging by the many high-profile hacks of the last couple of years, even the biggest businesses and government agencies are no more ...

Cybercrime is rampant around the world these days. Between people leaving passwords on sticky notes, not updating their software regularly, and a host of other poor consumer security practices, ...

If you ask kids right now what they want to be when they grow up, you probably won’t hear “hacker.” But hackers are absolutely essential to protecting cyberspace from computer criminals. We need to ...