Allison Nixon had helped arrest dozens of members of The Com — a loose affiliation of online groups responsible for violence and hacking campaigns. Then she became a target.

Interview with Douglas Day, member of the Hacker Advisory Board at HackerOne and a full-time professional hacker.

The Polish government accused a Russian government hacking group of hacking into energy facilities taking advantage of ...

Critical security flaws targeting Windows and Office users allow hackers to take complete control of a victim's computer by ...

The hacker claims to have stolen nearly 700,000 Substack user records, including email addresses and phone numbers.

An unidentified hacker stole sensitive data from Customs and Border Protection and Federal Emergency Management Agency employees in a “widespread” breach this summer that lasted several weeks, ...

In the computer security context, a hacker is someone who seeks and exploits weaknesses in a computer system or computer network. Hackers may be motivated by a multitude of reasons, such as profit, ...

A Lithuanian national has been arrested for his alleged involvement in infecting 2.8 million systems with clipboard-stealing malware disguised as the KMSAuto tool for illegally activating Windows and ...

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 ...

Attackers can hack your speaker’s microphones and track your location The vulnerability is found in Google’s Fast Pair feature Researchers say the flaw could affect millions of devices Google’s Fast ...

Ukraine's Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) says that Russian hackers are exploiting CVE-2026-21509, a recently patched vulnerability in multiple versions of Microsoft Office.

Poland has said suspected Russian government hackers gained access to parts of the country’s energy infrastructure by exploiting basic security failures, ...