A computer expert pulled off the 'biggest military computer hack of all time,' breaching NASA's system to find what he said ...

Gary McKinnon, 60, rummaged through 97 US army and authorities websites in the early 1990s from his girlfriend’s aunt’s flat ...

Once upon a time, hackers were hackers and crackers were crackers, and everyone who counted knew the difference. The earliest hackers were members of an electric train club at the Massachusetts ...

Kevin Mitnick, whose pioneering antics tricking employees in the 1980s and 1990s into helping him steal software and services from big phone and tech companies made him the most celebrated U.S. hacker ...

The unknown Claude user wrote Spanish-language prompts for the chatbot to act as an elite hacker, finding vulnerabilities in government networks, writing computer scripts to exploit them and ...

Dustin Heywood, also known by his online handle EvilMog, began hacking into computer networks as a teenager in the mid-1990s. Now the 36-year-old is using his hacking skills for good as a penetration ...

Police raids carried out across a dozen Turkish cities have resulted in 32 individuals allegedly linked to the activist computer hacker (a.k.a. ‘hackivist’) group Anonymous being taken into custody, ...

Mafiaboy is now a man and he’s on a mission. As a 15-year-old hacker in 2000, Mafiaboy (real name: Michael Calce) paralyzed the websites of the biggest names in media and e-commerce, including CNN, ...

A federal judge ordered a 22-year-old convicted of carrying out a now-infamous cyber-attack on the Rutgers University computer network was ordered to pay to pay $8.6 million in restitution. Paras Jha ...

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In the film Blackhat, actor Chris Hemsworth plays an imprisoned computer hacker who can secure his own release if he helps the FBI stop the code he once helped create. But unlike Hollywood films, some ...