hacking

Video outlines the background of how hacking when from enthusiasts to criminals, and how good hackers are trying to take back the term.

The rash of attacks on Twitter, Facebook, Apple, and others can mean only one thing: Hackers are in control. Let's see how they deal with that.

From the world’s new largest prime number to the key to BlackBerry 10’s success in Canada to one group not happy with all the bugs Microsoft is squishing, we make fun of some of the this week’s top tech stories

From Apple’s latest trademark coup to the secrets Anonymous hacked from the U.S. government to using Google Maps to find the best breakfast food in North Korea, we bring you the silliest stories in the tech world this past week

Confused (and saddened) by the recent split between Anonymous and WikiLeaks? Allow us to help explain it all so even your mom will understand

Don't let hackers do to you what they did to Wired's Mat Honan. Using two-factor log-ons can help keep attackers from hijacking your accounts.

Hackers have leaked more than 450,000 Yahoo passwords onto the InterWebs. More proof you never should have used Yahoo Voices in the first place.

Not every MIT hack is brilliant. Some are the kind of prank any group of bright students could pull off. Not this time. Friday night a group of uber-geek MIT hackers turned the campus' Green Building into a game of Tetris that could be played using a console installed at ground level (with a sign reading DO NOT play TETRIS on the Green Building). Brilliant.

NATO announced a cyberwar rapid-response team whose mission is to counter sudden attacks and return systems to their original state. The idea sounds fine, but considering the speed and increasing aggression of cyberattackers, the new team sounds distinctly little league.

Once seen as, if anyone could be, the one honest, clean rider in cycling, Floyd Landis had theTour de France taken away, got banned, lost friends and got convicted of hack at French lab. Long trip for a Mennonite kid.

Bank of America is having uptime problems. Customers couldn't log in over the weekend and the home page was out today. Bank spokespeople wouldn't name the problem, but insist it wasn't external. BofA web technolgy is good enough to kill itself with no help from outside.