This weekend, tens of thousands of hackers gathered at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas for DEF CON, the annual hacker convention. This year's convention introduced a timely challenge for attendees. About two dozen electronic voting machines were set up, inviting hackers to see just how difficult they are to infiltrate. The answer: not very.

Well, that's one way to try and get ransom money. A hacker that calls themselves (no joke) The Dark Lord has stolen the upcoming fifth season of the Netflix drama Orange Is the New Black and is threatening leaking it online ahead of its premiere for money.

Natalie Dormer is a wonderful actress, simply put, and it's exciting to see her expanding her horizons into video game voice acting.

Back in September, Yahoo revealed that they—and their users—been the victims of a large-scale data breach of some 500 million users, which occurred way back in 2014. Now, they're warning users of another security breach from August 2013, which they believe to be a completely separate instance affected as many as one billion users. If we keep up this pattern, we may eventually uncover a data breach from the time period when people actually used Yahoo.

Worried about the surveillance state? Well, it's time to worry even more. I'm sorry. This is bad news.

Jill Pantozzi, TMS' erstwhile Editor-in-Chief, tweeted about an incredible /r/relationships post that can really only be summed up exactly how you see it on her tweet.

By now, you’ve heard the awful story of how hackers infiltrated Leslie Jones’ website to post her nude photos as well as pictures of her private documents. Now, it looks like the FBI is investigating the situation.

Because it wasn't enough for people to fling racist and sexist tweets at Leslie Jones via Twitter as Ghostbusters opened. Now, someone has managed to not only hack her website, but they've obtained personal information and private photos, flooding the site with them. What the hell is wrong with you, Internet? Oh, racism and sexism. Right. That's what's wrong with you.

Do you use your fingerprint to unlock your smartphone or laptop? Not all devices have this capability, but for those that do, it feels fun and futuristic to use it. But some theorize that it's less secure than using a passcode.

Happy birthday! Are you one? *Throws $1,000.* Are you two? *Throws $1,000.* Are you— Anyway, yes, a ten-year-old kid exposed a security flaw in Instagram, and Facebook (which owns Instagram, in case you were not aware), rewarded the child’s ingenuity with literally $1,000 for every year he’s spent on Earth/getting smart enough to find bugs […]

Owning a car can introduce a lot of worry into your life: what if someone breaks into it? What if something goes wrong, resulting in expensive repairs? Well, pretty soon, you're going to have the pleasure of worrying about installing an anti-virus system on your car's operating system so as to prevent hackers and malware from interfering.

The Pentagon is now accepting applications for hackers to attempt to find their security flaws, likely leading to a showdown with Fisher Stevens—or a paycheck, actually. Don't worry, though. They've put a number of protections in place to make sure only hackers of the most altruistic variety get involved and nothing bad happens.

If you want your family to be able to unlock your iPhone when you die, you should probably tell someone the password now, because Apple probably won't.

Less than 24 hours before today's hearing between the FBI and Apple, the FBI asked to postpone until April 5th, explaining that "an outside party demonstrated to the FBI a possible method" for unlocking the iPhone. In other words, the FBI may no longer need Apple's help in developing this hypothetical backdoor.

Remember that massive celebrity nude-photo leak that happened in 2014, affecting tons of celebrities? Of course you remember. The entire internet remembers! Well, the feds have officially caught the guy responsible for orchestrating the "phishing" scheme that resulted in the theft of those photos.

Provided you can pass a background check, the federal government wants you to do something that they've never asked the public to do before: hack the Pentagon.

Andrew Helton, the hacker who obtained nude celebrity photos through a phishing scheme, has just plead guilty to his crimes. His felony could earn him up to five years in prison.