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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Just days after bitcoin (BTC) crossed the $17,000 price threshold for the first time in weeks, the largest cryptocurrency by market value has now breached the wall of $18K. The question now is whether ...

USA Today’s Twitter account was taken over Sunday by a group of prankster-hackers who call themselves “The Script Kiddies.” The same group hacked the NBC News account on Sept. 9 and sent fictitious ...