A source familiar with security matters says a hacker group has claimed responsibility for a recent cyberattack on Japanese ...

In the computer security context, a hacker is someone who seeks and exploits weaknesses in a computer system or computer network. Hackers may be motivated by a multitude of reasons, such as profit, ...

A well-known Japanese company, Askul Corp., has become the latest target of a major cyberattack. Askul, which sells office ...

In the wake of four young people being arrested over suspected involvement in the recent Marks & Spencer, Co-op and Harrods ransomware attacks, it is easy to rush to censure those responsible for the ...

A hacker has taken responsibility for last week's University of Pennsylvania "We got hacked" email incident, saying it was a ...

Hackers claim to have compromised the computer of a North Korean government hacker and leaked its contents online, offering a rare window into a hacking operation by the notoriously secretive nation.

A couple of years ago, a curious, then-16-year-old hacker named Reynaldo Vasquez-Garcia was on his laptop at his Portland-area high school, seeing what computer systems he could connect to via the ...