Hacker News with Generative AI: Hackers

Crypto exchange Bybit says it was hacked and lost around $1.4B (techcrunch.com)
Crypto exchange Bybit announced on Friday that “a sophisticated attack” led to the theft of Ethereum (ETH) from one of the company’s offline wallets.

Cryptocurrency, Security Breaches, Finance, Hackers

6 points by bubblehack3r 41 days ago | 0 comments

38C3: Illegal Instructions Streaming (media.ccc.de)
38C3: Illegal Instructions Streaming

Streaming, Hackers, Conferences

18 points by ruik 97 days ago | 1 comments

38th Chaos Communication Congress (events.ccc.de)
The 38th Chaos Communication Congress (38C3) takes place in Hamburg on 27–30 Dec 2024, and is the 2024 edition of the annual four-day conference on technology, society and utopia organized by the Chaos Computer Club (CCC) and volunteers.

Technology, Society, Conferences, Germany, Hackers

353 points by joeig 101 days ago | 195 comments

Volunteer DEF CON hackers dive into America's leaky water infrastructure (theregister.com)
A plan for hackers to help secure America's critical infrastructure has kicked off with six US water companies signing up to let coders kick the tires of their computer systems and fix any vulnerabilities.

Cybersecurity, Infrastructure, Hackers, Water, Government

49 points by rntn 130 days ago | 25 comments

Andrew "Bunnie" Huang (Hacker) (wikipedia.org)
Andrew "bunnie" Huang (born 1975) is an American researcher and hacker,[1] who holds a Ph.D in electrical engineering from MIT and is the author of the freely available 2003 book Hacking the Xbox: An Introduction to Reverse Engineering.