The term “computer hacker” refers to an individual or group of individuals skilled in manipulating computer systems, often breaking through layers of security to achieve their goals.

The ransomware infection locks access to the compromised computer. Hackers are in possession of the encryption key, and they claim they would only provide it to the victim once the ransom is paid.

Cisco confirmed today that it took its public DevHub portal offline after a threat actor leaked "non-public" data, but it continues to state that there is no evidence that its systems were breached.

A computer hacker who “took about an hour” to create a program which infiltrated the website of Nike Inc in a “credential stuffing” cyber attack avoided going to jail on Friday.

It is currently under siege. Hackers struck the Internet Archive last week, leaking the information of millions of users and defacing it with a message taunting the nonprofit’s website for ...

It wasn't too many years ago that accessing a computer remotely—over the web, from another device—was a hugely complicated exercise that was challenging even for IT professionals. These days ...

you'll want to be careful checking your emails and your messages as hackers often use phishing attacks as a means to infect your smartphone or computer with malware or to trick you into giving up ...

Investigators also found Council made some questionable searches from his personal computer: He later conducted internet searches for “SECGOV hack,” “telegram sim swap,” “how can I know ...

According to the hackers' paper, their findings represent "the first time that a real quantum computer has posed a real and substantial threat to multiple full-scale SPN structured algorithms in use ...

But the agency said it had arrested a hacker who had tried to sell data from the FBI’s InfraGard database. Back in Dec. 2022, USDoD had advertised the sale on a hacking forum for $50,000.

Brazil’s Federal Police announced the arrest of a hacker whose description matches that of the notorious ... Eduard holds a bachelor’s degree in industrial informatics and a master’s degree in ...