Hackers have targeted the private computer systems of six schools on the Isle of Wight. A so-called 'ransomware' attack crippled the servers of the Island Education Federation. Such attacks use a ...

Being a carmaker where ‘everything is connected’ has left JLR unable to isolate its plants or functions, forcing a shutdown of most systems The first external signs of the chaos about to hit JLR, ...

One password is believed to have been all it took for a ransomware gang to destroy a 158-year-old company and put 700 people out of work. KNP - a Northamptonshire transport company - is just one of ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. What does the computer world have to teach us about designing for resilience in other domains? Quite a lot, ...

Two teenagers accused of hacking into Transport for London's systems and attempting to install ransomware conducted a cyber attack that cost £39million, a court heard today. Thalha Jubair, 19, and ...

The Chinese hackers behind a campaign to infiltrate transportation hubs and other critical American infrastructure have had access to some of their targets’ computer networks for “at least five years, ...

Kevin Mitnick was once the “most wanted” hacker before becoming a security consultant, writer and public speaker Kevin Mitnick, a reformed hacker who was once one of the FBI's "most wanted" ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

A teenager from Dorset who has admitted being part of a "hacker elite" has been cleared of hacking into and crashing the computers at America's biggest port, in Houston, Texas. Aaron Caffrey, 19, from ...

NOT that long ago, it seemed Gary McKinnon was doing all right. After months of unemployment he had just got a job as a maintenance manager. He had a girlfriend. He had given up smoking dope, stopped ...

German police have launched a homicide investigation after a woman died during a cyber-attack on a hospital. Hackers disabled computer systems at Düsseldorf University Hospital and the patient died ...