It's a scary thought and a reminder of how this "global village" we live in is so interconnected that we can no longer afford to ignore problems that affect "other people," because they can affect us, too.

Sven Olaf Kamphuis calls himself the “minister of telecommunications and foreign affairs for the Republic of CyberBunker.” Others see him as the P...

The U.S. government has taken a hard line on hackers lately, charging them with federal crimes that carry lengthy prison sentences. But a new repor...

As threats of a crippling cyberattack against the United States have mounted, the Obama administration has pushed repeatedly for stronger digital defe...

Ever wondered how many cyberattacks occur across the world every second? The non-profit Honeynet Project attempts to give you a sense of where and how...

Despite repeated warnings about the national security threats posed by hackers, Congress failed to pass legislation this summer to protect vital compu...

The Obama administration on Wednesday announced new efforts to disrupt networks of infected computers that help cyber criminals send spam messages, co...

When American experts talk about cyber threats from other countries, they often cite elite hackers in China and Russia. On Thursday, some warned ag...

Let's put our daily conversations about information over-sharing in perspective and address what is by far the real danger to our security and national well-being.

As the House prepares to vote next week on landmark legislation to protect the nation's computer systems, Republicans have stripped a key provision fr...

Every month, about four million computers turn into zombies, according to researchers. Unbeknownst to their owners, who have accidentally clicked ...

WASHINGTON -- It is a scenario that many officials in Washington say keeps them awake at night: a cyberattack against critical infrastructure. Many la...

The long-term penetration of Nortel Networks' computer system by hackers raises the possibility that owners of the company's telecom equipment could f...

The Chinese and Russian governments are aggressively stealing American military, technology and economic secrets by hacking into U.S. computer network...

By Jim Finkle (Reuters) - At least 48 chemical and defense companies were victims of a coordinated cyber attack that has been traced to a man i...

Pentagon officials have acknowledged they must recruit more cyber experts to stop hackers from breaching their networks and stealing classified milita...

Security researchers say they have discovered a new piece of malware that closely resembles the sophisticated computer worm that sabotaged Iran's nucl...

A top State Department official on Tuesday accused China and Russia of abandoning international talks on cybersecurity and seeking United Nations appr...

The FBI on Thursday arrested a suspected member of the hacker group LulzSec in connection with a cyber attack earlier this year against the computer s...

As former director of the National Security Agency and former director of national intelligence, Mike McConnell is widely portrayed as an authoritativ...

As the federal government pushes to digitize health records, current security practices are inadequate to defend against a growing number of data brea...

Ten years after the Sept. 11 attacks, many lawmakers and intelligence officials say they fear the next such attack could be triggered with the click o...

British authorities are bracing for an increase in cyberterrorism as al Qaeda calls for "cyber jihad" following the death of Osama bin Laden, accordin...

By Jim Finkle BOSTON (Reuters) - Two U.S. government-funded research laboratories and a defense contractor were targets of a "highly sophistica...