BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) -- A suspected crooked insider at a New York software company sells consumer-credit reports to identity thieves, at roughly $30 a pop, in a high-tech scam that prosecutors say ...

An unemployed British computer administrator fights extradition to face federal charges in Virginia and New Jersey that he hacked into 92 separate U.S. military and government networks, often getting ...

Ryan Russell immediately recognized the characters scrolling down his PC screen. There, amid the arcana of Assembly language, were some Windows commands. They looked like part of the Code Red worm.

Someone broke into the computer system of a water treatment plant in Florida and tried to poison drinking water for a Florida municipality’s roughly 15,000 residents, officials said on Monday. The ...

The home page for one of the nation’s most respected computer security training institutes was defaced Friday morning and the site remains offline. A group identifying itself as “Fluffi Bunni” managed ...

Search engine leader Google has been forced to respond to a security vulnerability in its Google Desktop Search software, which reportedly made it possible for computer intruders to view desktop ...

="" href="http://www.house.gov/judiciary/hr2975terrorismbill.pdf" target="_blank">Patriot Act of 2001, a sweeping law which, among other things, said those who break ...

Computer intruders broke into Stanford University's business school admissions process -- but failed to learn the status of their applications. According to Stanford, 41 people surreptitiously entered ...

A late-term change in the Clinton administration's approach to prosecuting cybercrime has made it much more difficult for NASA to track and prosecute hackers who attempt to penetrate its computer ...