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.

As 2012 draws to an end, it's fair to say it's been a very busy year for cybercriminals! So what have we learnt from the past year and what do we need to be wary of in 2013 to ensure that both our data and our wallet remain protected?

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 ...

The rise of the Maker Movement has shown that people are hacking the physical, as well as the virtual, world. But why stop at hacking objects?

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...

Thousands of small business websites hosted by GoDaddy.com were down for several hours on Monday after the company’s domain registrar was apparently...

The inner-workings of the world's most powerful professional hacking group have been exposed. The so-called Elderwood group, known for launching an...

A group of hackers has leaked more than a million unique iPhone ID after claiming to have breached an FBI laptop. The news is concerning because th...

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...

A hacking collective said it successfully attacked the world's largest oil company - and is threatening to strike again. Saudi Aramco, the biggest ...

A hacking collective said it successfully attacked the world's largest oil company - and is threatening to strike again. Saudi Aramco, the biggest ...

A hacking group called Anonymous launched a series of attacks on government websites on Monday night in revenge for the country attempting to extradit...

So many systems are interconnected in the cloud making things more convenient than ever before, but we have to realise that this same interconnectedness makes security exponentially harder.

It may have been called 'Internet Doomsday' - but the decision to switch off a temporary fix to a virus which could have thrown thousands offline appe...

The former leader of the hacking group known as TeaMp0isoN faces jail after pleading guilty to stealing Tony Blair's personal details from an aide's e...

Two members of the LulzSec hacking group have pleaded guilty to attacking high-profile websites. But the men - Ryan Cleary, 19, and Jake Davis, 18 ...