Spoiler alert -- hackers don't wear black hoodies with a Guy Fawkes mask, nor would you see "Matrix"-like ideograms on their screen if you took a peek over their shoulder. In that spirit, here are 12 ...

Employees watched their computers get wiped by the hackers in real-time.

Gary McKinnon, who prosecutors said committed "the biggest military computer hack of all time," claims he has seen UFO images and "non-terrestrial" data ...

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Opinion It was 40 years ago that four young British hackers set about changing the law, although they didn't know it at the time. It was a cross-platform attack including a ZX Spectrum, a BBC Micro, ...

As it turns out, there’s more to worry about than hacking from the cloud. New research from Ben-Gurion University in Israel has shown it is possible to hack into computers that aren’t connected to the ...

Researchers at FIU’s College of Engineering and Computing have developed an encryption algorithm to defend videos from attackers with access to the world's most powerful computers. The encryption ...

Williams & Connolly, one of the nation’s most prominent law firms, told clients that its computer systems had been infiltrated and that hackers may have gained access to some client emails. By Michael ...

ORLANDO, Fla. — Documents show that a former Disney employee who was accused of hacking the computer system Walt Disney World uses to create its menus has pled guilty in Federal Court. Michael Scheuer ...

Researchers at Israel’s Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) have discovered a newmethod to breach air-gapped computer systems called “BitWhisper” which enables two-way communications between ...

A good degree in computer science, plus specialist certifications, should put you in the right position to become an ethical hacker. Unlike the popular image of hackers, ethical hackers don’t tend to ...

A man in a black hoodie wearing a Guy Fawkes mask sits in a dark room, face lit up forebodingly by his laptop screen. He types furiously, laying down dozens of lines of code. After a few moments go by ...