Cyber Security Malaysia (CSM) chief executive officer Datuk Dr Amirudin Abdul Wahab said Malaysia urgently requires a strong talent pool of ethical hackers. Amirudin “As cyber threats become ...

Ethical hacking received a big boost in 2022 when the US Justice Department declared that "good faith" security research would no longer be charged under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.

However, ethical hackers remain particularly valued, both for identifying weaknesses and stress-testing systems before actual attackers do. As the AI threat matures, these roles become more central.

A sharp rise in hackers' confidence in AI technologies has been revealed in the Inside the Mind of a Hacker 2024 report, published today by Bugcrowd.. The study, which gathered insights from 1300 ...