"History repeats itself" is a phrase you'd never think of in the tech world, but it holds quite a bit of truth in the industry. With the recent rise in data breaches, you might think that hacking is a ...

In 1998, Chris Wysopal and friends discovered a way to shut down the internet. With just 30 minutes of work they believed they could do enough damage to stop the world wide network operating for a ...

Before the invention of the personal computer and the internet, a maverick species of technological spelunker – the phone phreak – explored, documented and played with an intricate technical system: ...

At 4am on 22nd March 2016, a groggy Billy Rinehart opened his laptop in a Honolulu hotel room and made quite possibly the biggest mistake of his life. Google had just sent him a message claiming that ...

The world is full of hackers, or so it seems. In the past few months barely a day has gone by without news of a fresh security breach. Multi-national companies have been left counting the cost of ...

CYBER experts are scrambling to fix what’s been described as one of the worst PC hacks in history. The dangerous security vulnerability is called Log4Shell and criminals are known to be exploiting it.

Scientists at MIT in the 1960s had to share computer time. They had passwords to access the computer and could not use more than their allowance. But one man hacked the system. Show more Scientists at ...