Although the average computer user has little involvement with such significant security threats, the increasing prevalence of cybercrime places greater responsibility on consumers to protect their individual identities and personal information from hackers.

Is there a hacking epidemic? Earlier this week, Burger King saw its Twitter account get a McDonald's makeover, and then Jeep had its feed taken over b...

LOS ANGELES — Oracle Corp. said Monday it has released a fix for the flaw in its Java software that raised an alarm from the U.S. Department of ...

At the Consumer Electronics Show today, Intel and McAfee announced new technology that they've been developing over the past year. The announcement couldn't come at a better time for McAfee, which spent much of December trying to distance itself from bad press surrounding its founder.

When Adrian Lamo goes online, he leaves nothing to chance. To log in to personal accounts, he uses a digital password generator -- a plastic key ch...

In recent weeks, computer hackers have attacked a Saudi Arabian oil company, a Qatari natural gas company, and several American banks. The level of da...

Many have found inspiration and solace in Star Wars that can apply to the everyday real world, including data security. It teaches us that it is important to protect all the important data that you have with core access control.

Are you a software pirate? 57 percent of the world's computer users confess to pirating software according to a recent Business Software Alliance (BSA...

This question originally appeared on Quora. By Feross Aboukhadijeh, Stanford undergraduate, computer security enthusiast, and blogger Yes, bad guy...

WASHINGTON -- A new study warns that the U.S. must develop cyber intelligence as a new and better coordinated government discipline that can predict c...

NEW YORK — A computer security firm says cybercriminals have spent at least the past five years targeting more than 70 government entities, nonp...

A security researcher claims to have found a new security flaw in Apple laptops that could allow hackers to ruin laptop batteries, infect them with ma...

Right now, you're sitting in front of our pact with the Devil. When you finish reading this, you will do nothing about it.

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Online, we're safe from strangers knowing all kinds of things about us that we want to keep private, right? Wrong.

China is significantly boosting its capabilities in cyberspace as a way to gather intelligence and, in the event of war, hit the U.S. government in a ...

The Conficker worm, a computer worm built to target Microsoft Windows operating systems, continues to be one of the most prevalent security threats to...

Today's Internet-savvy, video game-saturated culture has lulled parents into thinking that children already know what they need to know. But the ability to operate a PC, use a Wii, or surf the Web isn't enough.

There's not much authorities can do to prevent hackers from determining computer users' e-mail passwords, U.S. experts say. ...