Russia added President Vladimir Putin critic Alexei Navalny and a handful of his supporters to its list of terrorists and extremists. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan labeled hundreds of ...

An attack against a computer or network that is performed only to prove that it can be done. A proof-of-concept exploit generally does not cause harm but shows how a hacker can either breach a network ...

The business of selling software tools to attack a computer or network. Widely available on the Dark Web, the exploit industry is alive and well. See Dark Web and exploit. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR ...

Update: this post is factually incorrect. ZDNet was sending out spam. A security vendor has claimed that ZDNet is being "exploited" by Google Docs in order to send spam. Let's pick apart this ...