When you think teenage hacker, you typically think of a troublemaker changing his grades or defacing Websites. But a 16-year-old U.K. student recently earned the distinction of becoming the world's ...

Marc Maiffret knew it was time to grow up when he awoke one morning in 1998 to an FBI agent holding a gun to his head. "All that hacking had caught up with me," says Maiffret, CTO and chief hacking ...

Tension: Inexperienced hackers crave shortcuts to power, yet the very tools that promise a shortcut often flip and claim the hackers as victims. Noise: Forums and YouTube tutorials glamorize “plug-and ...

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new campaign attributed to the Chinese "Tropic Trooper" hacking group, which employs a novel loader called Nimbda and a new variant of the Yahoyah trojan.

This year’s Black Hat and Def Con Internet security conferences appeared more professional than in previous years, with more security professionals and government officials in attendance. But one ...