A man in a black hoodie wearing a Guy Fawkes mask sits in a dark room, face lit up forebodingly by his laptop screen. He types furiously, laying down dozens of lines of code. After a few moments go by ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Algorithms are the building blocks that, when layered together, form the cryptographic fortress ...

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 ...

Researchers at FIU’s College of Engineering and Computing have developed an encryption algorithm to defend videos from attackers with access to the world's most powerful computers. The encryption ...

The largest computer hack ever conducted has reportedly taken place after servers across Europe were inundated with spam in a concerted effort to bring them down. Exploiting loopholes in the Network ...

According to the US Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia, Chinese nationals Yin Kecheng, 38, and Zhou Shuai, 45, violated various federal statutes by participating in years-long, ...

Catherine Venusto allegedly changed kids' grades in school computer. July 19, 2012— -- A Pennsylvania mom faces six felony charges for allegedly hacking into her children's school computer to ...

A judge in the United Kingdom has recommended the extradition of a private investigator to the United States whom the Justice Department accuses of leading a hacking operation that targeted American ...