Did a hacker just pwn a hatemonger? On Tuesday, Fred Phelps Jr., the son of Westboro Baptist Church minister Fred Phelps, linked the devastation fr...

In 1997, when influential annual hacking conference Black Hat was founded, the average person could be excused for not paying attention to what was happening in the hacker underground. But today it's time for everyone to learn about hacking threats.

Internet service providers are increasingly looking for ways to charge customers more money for faster speeds and access to more data. For years, h...

Don’t just follow the law. Hack it. That was Jonathan Askin’s challenge to an auditorium of law students, lawyers and entrepreneurs at the firs...

LAS VEGAS -- Hackers are out to stymie your smartphone. Last week, security researchers uncovered yet another strain of malicious software aimed at s...

More than 30 North Korean hackers were hired to work in China by a South Korean crime ring to steal the personal data of South Korean gamers, and chan...

Nicholas Allegra lives with his parents in Chappaqua, New York. The tall, shaggy-haired and bespectacled 19-year old has been on leave from Brown Univ...

If you have a PlayStation Network account, it's time to change your password and be on the lookout for suspicious emails. Sony has confirmed that u...

Russian hacker Igor Blinnikov, known in Moscow as the man who uploaded pornography onto a huge video billboard, has been sentenced to 18 months behind...

The federal government's list of emergency network security personnel has not been updated in 15 years, putting national security at high risk if a sh...

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

LAS VEGAS — A computer security researcher has built a device for just $1,500 that can intercept some kinds of cell phone calls and record every...

An alleged pervert has been arrested in Germany over allegations that he used malware to hack into webcams and spy on schoolgirls. The unnamed hack...

On July 29th, returning from a trip to Europe, Jacob Appelbaum, a lanky, unassuming 27-year-old wearing a black T-shirt with the slogan Be The Trouble...

One visit to a booby-trapped website could direct attackers to a person's home, a security expert has shown. The attack, thought up by hacker Samy Ka...

One of the leaders of Goatse Security, the hacker group that discovered a security flaw that revealed the emails of iPad early adopters, has been arrested -- on drugs charges.

Police say a 9-year-old McLean boy hacked into the Blackboard Learning System used by the county school system to change teachers' and staff members' ...