The Obama administration is "on the verge of" signing off on a proposal from the FBI that would make it easier for the agency's to intercept online communications. Please allow us to offer a tip that may help you avoid the Feds' steely gaze.
To ring in this year's Holocaust Memorial Day, the classy hackers at Anonymous took down a bunch of Israeli government websites on Sunday and say they caused over $3 billion in damage.
Playing around with the manufacturers version of the not-yet-widely released Windows 8, programmer (and hacker) Nadim Kobeissi discovered that the operating system "tells Microsoft about everything you install" and does that "not very securely."
If it feels like there have been a lot of password hacks this year, it's because there have been more than usual, and Ars Technica's Dan Goodin explains why that is.
The death of the Senate's cyber security bill, one of President Obama's top national security priorities, saw a combined push by two unlikely allies: Privacy advocates and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
The problems with watching porn while you're supposed to be manning the nation's missile defense are obvious, but the insidious thing about Missile Defense Agency's warning to its employees to lay off the smut is that employees were apparently not practicing safe cybersex.
This week is Washington's "make-or-break" moment to pass a new cybersecurity bill ahead of the August recess. As a result, there's never been a better time to stoke fears of a crippling cyber attacks regardless of their actual likelihood.
President Obama's recently signed executive order outlining emergency control of the Internet didn't get much attention in the U.S. but it's spooking foreign journalists.
Having finally come to terms with the weaknesses in its operating system, Apple is turning to the security company Kaspersky Lab to point out vulnerabilities and offer advice on how to fix them.
The National Security Agency is a lot of things. Transparent is not one of them.
When Microsoft's not making software or technological marvels in its labs, it's fighting crimes with its Digital Crimes Unit.
Now that we know way too much about Bashar al-Assad's personal life, we need to extend a warning so that his regime doesn't end up knowing too much about yours.
Dell, the company that's perhaps best known for it's line of colorful, college student-friendly laptops, is getting into the cyber security business with its fairly sizable purchase of SonicWALL, Inc.
A group of hackers calling themselves Th3 Consortium and claiming to be affiliated with Anonymous and LulzSec broke into yet DigitalPlaground.com, the third porn site it's hacked in as many weeks, stealing 72,000 passwords and 40,000 credit card numbers.
The Obama administration's new defense strategy unveiled today says China is actively trying to curb America's military might but, in covert and overt ways, the Defense Department is bulking up its presence in the Middle Kingdom's backyard.
After all the lengths Google went to assure us of Google Wallet's security, it turns out the mobile payments system stores a lot of unencrypted information on your smart phone's database.
If the term "Internet troll" conjures up unintimidating images of angry, acne-faced computer geeks, the phrase "Internet water army" just sounds horrifying, like a force of besuited villains from a graphic novel.
On Thursday afternoon, Facebook confirmed that a "coordinated spam attack" has been sending a torrent of hardcore porn and gore into Facebook users' news feeds. It's not pretty.
As attacks on mobile devices skyrocket, the prospect of falling victim to a hacker seems like it's no longer a question of "if" but rather "when."
According to provisions in the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
Twitter's security and free speech policies don't always mix
A new online security bill will punish companies that get hacked
Researchers detail an international hacking plot that's been running for five years
Anonymous cracked two government websites and America's cybercrime chief resigned suddenly
It was all about going out on top, says a founding member
A long-awaited cybersecurity plan details how the nation should defend itself online
Meet George Hotz, aka GeoHot
On Obama's prudence, the Syrian people, and Shakespeare's appeal in China
The hacker group says the attack is in retaliation to anti-immigration legislation
Guidelines are emerging for offensive and defensive operations
The U.S. is losing the war on cybercrime and government spooks are upping the ante
The bank unveils new numbers but refuses to elaborate on the nature of the attack
British Ministry of Defense warns soldiers: "Think Before You Tweet"
Unidentified hackers used a simple but clever technique to break into the bank
From the Chinese to the Greeks to terrorist hacker squads
It would be the group's first U.S. government intrusion
The bank says 200,000 accounts were accessed, though the number may reach millions
Despite, as The Guardian reports, turning a quarter of hackers into informants
A survey of the damage done by the loosely-affiliated hacker group
British intelligence officials hacked the terrorists's inaugural issue of Inspire
Journalists, military personnel and senior U.S. officials had their accounts hacked
Why cyber deterrence is much more difficult than nuclear deterrence
A hacker who posted a phony Tupac story on PBS's web site talks to Forbes
The U.S. military may respond to attacks with conventional military force
They say Anonymous members are responsible but it shouldn't besmirch the entire group
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