A man in a black hoodie wearing a Guy Fawkes mask sits in a dark room, face lit up forebodingly by his laptop screen. He types furiously, laying down dozens of lines of code. After a few moments go by ...

These comments were inspired by the column on hacking by Michelle Singletary that appeared in the paper on Sept. 1. I use the word “computer” to refer to any electronic device that does the kind of ...

Bounty-hunting became mainstream in 2012 with Bugcrowd and HackerOne. These were followed by, for example, YesWeHack (2015) ...