Brazil’s Polícia Federal announced the arrest of the hacker linked to a breach that leaked 2.9 billion records that included sensitive personal information, including some Social Security ...

To carry out this scheme, Council is accused of creating a fake ID using the information belonging to the person in control of the SEC’s X account. He then allegedly tricked AT&T into providing ...

A notorious hacker named USDoD, who is linked to the National Public Data and InfraGard breaches, has been arrested by Brazil's Polícia Federal in "Operation Data Breach". USDoD, aka EquationCorp ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — A Chinese hacking group that received attention after a worldwide ransomware attack also happened to net a nickname more commonly associated with Ohio.APT3, also known as ...

For hackers seeking to maximize chaos, so-called denial-of-service attacks that knock targets offline with waves off junk traffic are typically more of a blunt cudgel than a weapon of mass ...

Simply sign up to the Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. In spring 2020, in the middle of the first Covid lockdown, the tech journalist Carl Miller had a conversation with Chris ...

Back in August of this year, it was revealed that a hacker going by the screenname USDoD was behind a massive data breach at the public records data provider, National Public Data. That data ...

Ker Than is a freelance science writer living in the Bay Area. He has written for National Geographic, New Scientist, and Popular Science. Researchers have found that stalagmites can help ...

What are the best hacking games on PC? Game developers have long valued the ‘hacker ethic’ – the will and skill to grab a game by the scruff of its code, rip it apart, and put the pieces ...

If you don’t know what Net Investment Income Tax (NIIT) is, you’re not alone. This relatively new tax began a little over a decade ago but the number of taxpayers subject to the tax has ...