A man in a black hoodie wearing a Guy Fawkes mask sits in a dark room, face lit up forebodingly by his laptop screen. He types furiously, laying down dozens of lines of code. After a few moments go by ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Algorithms are the building blocks that, when layered together, form the cryptographic fortress ...

A sealed FBI file alleges Matt Weiss was in UM offices when computer accounts were hacked, leading to the theft of intimate ...

Researchers at FIU’s College of Engineering and Computing have developed an encryption algorithm to defend videos from attackers with access to the world's most powerful computers. The encryption ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON – The Justice Department announced charges Wednesday against 12 Chinese citizens who are accused of cyber-hacking to steal data from the Treasury Department and other organizations ...

The CPUs of those home computers barely used ten watts between them, yet that was enough to get the crew in a lot of hot water. Many days in court later, it turned out that no hacking laws had ...

Matthew Weiss, 42, downloaded the data of over 150,000 athletes. The former co-offensive coordinator for the University of Michigan's football team has been charged with hacking into thousands of ...

A judge in the United Kingdom has recommended the extradition of a private investigator to the United States whom the Justice Department accuses of leading a hacking operation that targeted American ...