People like Alex Johnson, a security system manager at Minneapolis-based Ascent Solutions, earn theirs by acting as the first line of defense between those online criminals and Minnesota organizations ...

About 175,000 private servers are reportedly exposed to the public internet, giving hackers the opportunity to carry out ...

WASHINGTON -- The Pentagon is looking for a few good computer hackers. Screened high-tech specialists will be brought in to try to breach the Defense Department's public Internet pages in a pilot ...

Movies about hackers have been around for longer than you may think. We've rounded up the top five that everyone should watch ...

Earlier this year, two hackers broke into a computer and soon realized the significance of what this machine was. As it turned out, they had landed on the computer of a hacker who allegedly works for ...

How do hackers get access to your computer? Hackers have many tricks up their sleeves. Viruses and malicious software, aka malware, make the most of security gaps, but something called social ...

The Amsterdam Court of Appeal sentenced a 44-year-old Dutch national to seven years in prison for multiple crimes, including computer hacking and attempted extortion. The man was arrested in 2021 and ...

In this week’s edition of Computer Weekly, we take a closer look at the knotty tale of MI5’s numerous attempts to identify a BBC journalist’s sources by obtaining phone data, and whether this led to ...