The Financial Times has become the latest media outlet to be hacked by the pro-Assad regime 'Syrian Electronic Army'. The group of hackers has clai...

A rogue employee of an American games company used a network of gamers to mine £2,400 worth of Bitcoins. Bitcoin is a digital 'currency' which is ...

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

Today the bad guys are increasingly well-financed, professional and work hard to develop new ways to get through defences. At the same time, we increasingly live our lives online which means the information and data we hold on our PCs and networks are valuable assets that can be traded and used.

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...

UPDATE: The North Korean news agency's Twitter and Flickr pages have now been confirmed to have been hacked. Hackers claiming to represent the Ano...

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.

Switch on the TV or scan the headlines and somehow it's become a case of another day, another hack. Multinational companies, governments, global news organizations, social networking sites, celebrities and politicians are all among those that have been left counting the cost of assaults on their e-mail systems and websites.

Internet Slowed Around The World By Massive Cyber Attack...

It's only natural to use the tool that's been perfectly designed for the job yet, for some reason, when it comes to securing the corporate infrastructure, many are frightened by the idea of hiring a hacker. I believe they're missing out.

Computer viruses are increasingly terrifying, with the capacity to destabilise entire nation states. But for some reason, they seemed much more ter...

Setting up a Cyber ​​Army while the sluices and pumping stations are equipped with factory-default passwords in their SCADA controllers seems pretty stupid. If you live in a glass house, not throwing stones and not motivating others to do so, is the smarter move.

Update: An earlier version of this story misspelled the name of the hacker group Rustle League. It also said that the group involved was Russian, whic...

A team of Russian security experts have hacked a cash machine to play Angry Birds. The Positive Technologies team demonstrated the technique in a v...

Despite the evident lack of heavy censorship at this early stage, the volume commentary on this issue has thus far remained thin. While Chinese cyber attacks are deeply troubling to Americans, Chinese Web users must remain constantly aware of authorities monitoring, and sometimes deleting, their own words.

Physically freezing a mobile phone makes it easier to hack. Researchers in Germany showed that placing phones in low temperatures can bypass securi...

A hoaxer who hacked a local news station in America and broadcast footage of a zombie apocalypse also managed to hack the national emergency alert sys...

Microblogging website Twitter confirmed on Friday that unidentified hackers had accessed the website and obtained the data of up to 250,000 of its use...