Mafiaboy is now a man and he’s on a mission. As a 15-year-old hacker in 2000, Mafiaboy (real name: Michael Calce) paralyzed the websites of the biggest names in media and e-commerce, including CNN, ...

Four hours: That’s how long students had to penetrate the corporation’s network and expose its vulnerabilities. While the network under attack during the CyberSci Regional Challenge was fictional, the ...

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 ...

Leaked e-mails reveal the Calgary Police Service looked seriously last year at purchasing software that would allow investigators to remotely hack cellphones and computers and to surreptitiously ...

U.S. authorities are investigating whether Chinese officials secretly copied the contents of a government laptop computer during a visit to China by Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez and used the ...

Simone Halink of the digital rights group Bits of Freedom says the law would set a bad precedent, giving a "green light" to oppressive governments to hack into civilian computers. The Dutch government ...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Hacking activity against corporations in the United States and other countries more than doubled by some measures last month as digital thieves took advantage of security ...