Mention Rui Pinto's name to Manchester City fans outside Etihad Stadium, and you mostly get blank faces. But while they might not know his name, they are more than familiar with his work. Pinto is the ...

A black hat hacker historically has been used to describe one who has malicious intent -- such as theft of information, fraud or disrupting systems -- but increasingly, more specific terms are being ...

WASHINGTON — Chinese state-sponsored hackers infiltrated US government computer networks ranging from NASA to the US Senate before having web domains linked to their malicious cyber group shut down by ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A concept illustration represents a computer hacker stealing data from a laptop for network security, identity theft and computer ...

A forum thread titled “Hacking for Profit. Working method” offers a rare glance into how underground communities pass information about vulnerability exploitation and hacking techniques in a form of ...

The information security world has three well-known types of hackers: black hats, white hats and gray hats. These colored-hat descriptions were born as hackers tried to differentiate themselves and ...

JCU Associate Professor of Information Technology Roberto Dillon has published his new historical analysis in the journal New Media & Society, explaining how gaming, movies and television ...

WASHINGTON − U.S. officials said Aug. 26 that they have disrupted a Chinese hacking operation that it believes is responsible for attempted cyber break-ins at the departments of Justice and Energy as ...