A 25-year-old Alabama man has been arrested for allegedly hacking into the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's X account to make an announcement that led to a spike in the price of bitcoin, the Justice Department said.
Trump tries to figure out why there is such a ruckus over cybersecurity when he states that no computer is safe, leaving many to question what can really be considered a safe way for passing information these days.
On Saturday the Senate of Michigan introduced a bill targeting electronic car hacking activities. Regardless, critics said the new legislation will criminalize white hat hackers and undermine the effort to enhance system security.
The Philippines' Commission on Elections guaranteed that the May 9 elections will resume despite the recent hacking incident. The intrusion to the commission's site exposed millions of registered voters' personal data.
A Florida man was arrested for participating in a bribery scheme aimed at supporting an illegal bitcoin exchange operated by his son and owned by an Israeli behind a series of hacking attacks on organizations such as JPMorgan Chase & Co.
The founder of Rigzone, David Kent, was arrested for wire fraud and conspiracy after allegedly hacking the very site that he created which is now owned by DHI.
A Pennsylvania man was charged after he pleaded guilty to illegally accessing the Apple and Gmail accounts of female celebrities. He has been charged on Tuesday.
Some of the survivors of the San Bernardino shooting are planning to file a legal brief that will force Apple to unlock one of the suspect's iPhone. The families of the victims believe this action will give them answers as to why and how the shooting happened.
The investigator powers tribunal has ruled in favor of the legality of the hacking activities conducted by the GCHQ as it is necessary to "safeguard the public."
Former NRC employee pleads guilty to a federal computer crime when he admitted he planned to launch an attack that would expose “top secret” information of the government to other nations.
The Cybersecurity Act 2015 will allow private companies to share information of their customers with government agencies to prevent hacking and online theft.
The U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) said Monday a hacking attack into one of its computer databases revealed in May was much more extensive than previously thought, with nearly three times as many taxpayers hit by data theft.
China on Monday downplayed an accusation by U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton that Beijing had tried to "hack into everything that doesn't move in America".
Two Vietnamese citizens and a Canadian have been charged with running a massive cyberfraud ring that stole 1 billion email addresses, then sent spam offering knockoff software products, the U.S. Department of Justice said on Friday.