The Purdue Exponent

Hack Night turns side projects into friendships, skills, career paths

The weekly Friday gathering gives students a place to build ambitious personal projects across disciplines, and members say ...

North Korea’s hijack of one of the web’s most used open source projects was likely weeks in the making

North Korean hackers pushed out malicious updates to a popular open source project by hacking a top developer's computer in a ...
The Daily Texan

‘Hack Hack Goose!’ inspires student-made projects

Hack … Hack … Goose! Counting down from 24 hours, the goose-themed hackathon began with students brainstorming, coding and developing projects with their teams.  With 183 participants, Freetail ...

Hacker hijacks Axios open-source project, used by millions, to push malware

A hacker inserted malware in Axios, an open-source web tool downloaded tens of millions of times weekly, in a widespread hack ...
The Purdue Exponent

Purdue Hackers’ Bento brings lightning talks, creative projects to campus

New Purdue Hackers event uses lightning talks and live demos to showcase the club’s mix of technical creativity, humor, and ...