In Michael Mann’s first film since 2009’s Public Enemies, Chris Hemsworth (Thor) stars as a black hat hacker named Hathaway in this week’s new release, Blackhat. Should you spend the money that you ...

I’m no technical genius, but I even I know better than to click on a mysterious link or attachment contained in an e-mail telling me that I need to reset my password. Even one that appears to come ...

What is it about hackers that invariably stumps Hollywood? Even when filmmakers get the details right, as Michael Mann does with Blackhat, his moody exploration of cyberterrorism, they often stumble ...

The hacker flick Blackhat definitely uses the language of cybersecurity, real terms like: malware, proxy server, zero day, payload, RAT, edge router, IP address, PLC, Bluetooth, Android, PGP, ...

Controversy struck Michael Mann‘s new cyberhacker actioner from within this week when composer Harry Gregson-Williams accused the director of “slicing and dicing” his work on the film. So who wants ...

Screenwriter, producer and director Michael Mann is a master of the crime story. From his work on Miami Vice in the '80s to films like Heat, The Insider and Public Enemies, it seems he's drawn to ...

Hollywood’s take on hacking is often wrong. But Michael Mann’s “Blackhat,” which opened Friday, is one of the rare films that gets it right, according to security expert Kevin Mahaffey. Movies depict ...

Movies about computers or computer hackers have never been particularly exciting, at least on the big screen. Maybe that's because the act of typing something on a keyboard while little words or ...

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Blackhat is a tedious, preposterous and incoherent cyberthriller that is anything but thrilling. When will filmmakers realize that watching people clicking away at their computers as their screens ...