Cybercrime has become a well-established feature of today's world. For the most part, this takes the form of random, speculative attacks designed to steal personal information from anyone unlucky enough to fall victim to the attack.

A software developer claiming to have hacked Google Glass has published the details of his exploit online. With a relatively simply alteration to i...

The self-proclaimed leader of hacking group LulzSec has been arrested in Australia. An as-yet unnamed 24-year-old senior IT worker was detained on ...

Whilst yet to make the big headlines, the full picture of online crime represents a fundamental challenge to all businesses, governments and our daily lives. In the all-encompassing digital age, information security as a profession and as a way of life is vital to ensuring both our economic prosperity and our sense of safety, privacy and freedom.

The government faces around 33,000 cyber attacks each month from sophisticated criminals and state-sponsored groups, a Cabinet Office minister has sai...

The Anonymous hacking collective has launched the second major assault on North Korean websites. Hackers from the amorphous group claimed to have t...

A security researcher has demonstrated the ability to hack a commercial airliner with an Android phone. Hugo Teso, a security consultant at n.runs ...

There is already a war taking place on the Korean Peninsula: it's on the internet - and the North may be winning. Jarno Limnéll, doctor in militar...

A 26-year-old has pleaded guilty to hacking websites of major institutions including the National Health Service, Sony and News International. Ryan...

Anonymous hackers have announced another round of cyber attacks on North Korea, as tensions in the peninsula continue to escalate. Last week the ce...

Anonymous hackers appear to have followed through on a promised hack of North Korean websites by taking control of the central news agency Uriminzokki...

You don't need to be a web trendster or pop culture vulture to recognise we're on the cusp of a new age; a fresh wave of inquisitive HTML meddlers. Never mind Generation X. Forget Generation Y. This isn't Generation Z. It's Generation Hack.

Scepticism has been thrown on reports that a massive online attack caused speeds on the internet to slow around the world on Wednesday. Publication...

Civilian hackers who cause death or damage to property could be legitimate targets for conventional weapons, according to the first international 'han...

Every year at the end of December, computer hackers from all over the world gather in Germany - this time in Hamburg - for the Chaos Communication Congress, four days of talks, meetings and workshops.

Don't let the New Year bring the expense of fixing a damaged computer, the stress of dealing with hacked credit card details or worse the unknown and undetected dangers. Since I got hacked last year, I made a promise to myself. I've fallen victim to cybercrime once before - I won't again.

A hacker group known as Ghost Shell have posted what they claim to be 1.6 million login names, passwords and email addresses from the FBI, Nasa and In...

A hugely-powerful computer which is able to crack even the most-complex randomised passwords in "seconds" has been demonstrated in Norway. The new ...

A group of hackers claims to have successfully defaced social media accounts belonging to the Israeli vice Prime Minister Silvan Shalom. The group ...

One of the great weaknesses of Western preparation for the strategic future of cyberspace is that we lack a coherent narrative for ordering and unders...

Researchers claim to have found a critical security hole at the heart of computer code used on more than a billion PCs and Macs. The so-called 'zer...

It's almost 17 years to the day when the film Hackers came out in cinemas. Whilst the film is obviously fictional, I found myself considering the other day whether our current cyber threats have surpassed those described in the film.

The hacking collective AntiSec has released more than a million iPhone ID numbers that it said it took from an FBI computer. The group claims to ha...