A hacker group, already infamous for ruining Christmas for new PlayStation and Xbox users, could now be involved a new incident. The Lizard Squad allegedly hacked into Malaysia Airlines’ website.
Some "Minecraft" users may have had their email addresses and passwords stolen, if a German news site is correct. Mojang has yet to comment on the alleged leak.
The U.S. government confidently traced last year's massive Sony hack to North Korea in part because the National Security Agency had itself infiltrated Pyongyang's computer systems. The NSA tried to break into the North's networks as early as 2010 with the help of American allies.
Meanwhile, Snapchat wants almost $1 million for disappearing ads, advertisers are Pinterest for a fool, and Facebook announced Amber Alerts and AI tools for everyone.
This week, President Obama called for new laws protecting Americans from the kind of massive data breaches that defined the consumer cybersecurity narrative in 2014, along with a proposal to limit technology companies' use of student data.
ISIS hacked into U.S. Central Command’s Twitter and YouTube accounts and began posting threats, documents and propaganda videos. Both accounts have since been suspended.
This year, more than any in recent memory, we awoke to the realities of the problems and promise inherent in what has become our hyper-connected, 21st century lives.
The hermit nation continued to have problems with its national Internet connectivity on Tuesday, though the downtime lasted minutes this time instead of hours.
Apple of course has the capability to push system updates to its customers, but it has never seen the need to use its automatic, mandatory patch system -- until now.
The film studio experienced a security breach earlier this week when it was hacked and information as well as movies were taken from its servers. The films were leaked on the Internet to file-sharing sites and the group behind the attack are threatening with releasing sensitive information if their demands are not met.
Regin, the most advanced malware ever found, has been conducting worldwide cyberspying since 2008. The Regin malware -- the most sophisticated espionage software ever discovered by researchers -- is thought to be the work of U.
The U.S. Postal Service revealed on Monday it had been hacked, adding an investigation is ongoing in conjunction with the FBI. Over 2 million customers and a quarter of a million employees have been affected by the security breach.
Cybersecurity is an issue that's not going away, and according to a new report from the Pew Research Center, it's likely to only become more critical in the future. Surveying a number of Internet experts, Pew found a consensus that the next decade will be filled with more cyber attacks, with bigger consequences.
Police tool was used to aid hackers of leaked celebrity photos A police tool for lifting data off of iPhones was used by the hackers who leaked more than 400 celebrity photos last weekend, RT reports.
After a nearly two-day investigation into the celebrity iCloud photo hacking, Apple has concluded that none of its systems were to blame, saying that the high-profile accounts in question were simply compromised by a hacking attack described as "all too common on the Internet."
Just as hackers from the Internet forum 4Chan were reportedly using a possibly major vulnerability in Apple's iCloud system to leak private nude photos of celebrities, a somewhat distantly-related hacking group in Latin America have been using their skills to shake up politics in Peru in a major way.
This week's Tap That App is all about your life online, and how quickly to protect it from all crashing down at once. It's Tap That App's password manager special!
It seems Internet vigilantism didn't die after Reddit's Boston bombing-obsessed users pointed its fingers at an innocent student who was later discovered dead. This time it's the hacktivist group Anonymous publically pointing the finger at a person who may or may not have been the police officer who fatally shot Michael Brown in Ferguson Missouri.
Hackers disrupted state television in one Chinese city with various dissenting messages and images, sending the government scrambling to contain the situation.
A law enforcement official said cyber thieves gained access to over 1,000 accounts on the online ticket marketplace Stubhub and bought fraudulent tickets.
Desperate for more iPhone features? Desperate for more iPhone features? Then maybe a jailbreak is right for you. So just what is a jailbreak? Basically, it's like taking the training wheels off of your iOS device.
