China’s Tianfu Cup hacking contest made its return in 2026, now overseen by the government and marked by limited transparency.

LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The winningest team in DEF CON’s Capture-the-Flag (CTF) competition history, Carnegie Mellon University’s Plaid Parliament of Pwning (PPP), won its third consecutive title, ...

A new hacking competition called Zeroday Cloud, focused on open-source cloud and AI tools, announced a total prize pool of $4.5 million in bug bounties for researchers that submit exploits for various ...

On the first day of Pwn2Own Automotive 2025, security researchers exploited 16 unique zero-days and collected $382,750 in cash awards. Fuzzware.io is leading the competition after hacking the Autel ...

'Seems like you should at least run that through ChatGPT to reword it' A new hacking contest has caused a social media kerfuffle over allegations of rule copying and plagiarism.… Wiz, the ...

The world’s best cybersecurity students came together at Rochester Institute of Technology to face-off in the Collegiate Penetration Testing Competition (CPTC) global finals Jan. 18-20. The event ...

For the past year, a dark horse contestant has been quietly racking up wins in student hacking competitions: Claude. Why it matters: Anthropic's large language model has been quietly outperforming ...

What do hackers do at summer camp? Play capture the flag, of course. And this year, computers are getting in on the action instead of humans, for the first time at the Aug. 4 Defense Advanced Research ...