If a disruption of service for less than eight hours will make this big of a splash on the internet, as is the intent of recent cybersecurity legislation, imagine what a complete shutdown of the internet will do.

A small Florida publishing company says the million-record database of Apple gadget identifiers released last week by the hacker group Anonymous was s...

A group tied to the hacker collective Anonymous claims to have hacked into an FBI agent’s laptop and revealed more than 1 million numbers used to tr...

Every time we turn around, it seems like there's another social network security breach or a targeted attack on cloud-based data. We're increasingly f...

The thought of someone being able to read your mind is frightening. And according to some new research presented at the 21st USENIX Security Symposium...

How vulnerable are we? How serious are the threats we face? How dangerous? Will we ultimately experience irreparable calamity? Are there obvious lessons or conclusions? What must we do to minimize the chances of something going horribly wrong?

On Sunday, hackers exposed usernames and passwords stored in the Gawker Media user database. The Wall Street Journal analyzed the leaked data and pr...

According to a diplomatic cable leaked by WikiLeaks yesterday, a senior member of the Chinese Politburo ordered the Google attack after he typed his own name into the search engine and found articles attacking him.

Unfortunately only a small portion of textbooks are available for download today. What do you do if your microbiology text isn't available in a digital format this fall?

As AT&T prepares to launch new limited data plans, the company is giving potential iPad customers one last chance to purchase an iPad with an unlimited data plan. You have to do it today.

Hackers in Europe and China successfully broke into computers at nearly 2,500 companies and government agencies over the last 18 months in a coordinat...