A new book by leading security researchers on writing code to exploit security flaws in software, including Microsoft Corp.’s Windows operating system, has caused some raised eyebrows in the technical ...

Critics of spyware and exploit sellers have long warned that the advanced hacking sold by commercial surveillance vendors (CSVs) represents a worldwide danger because they inevitably find their way ...

Peter Williams, the former general manager of Trenchant, a division of defense contractor L3Harris that develops surveillance and hacking tools for Western governments, pleaded guilty last week to ...