Hacking News

New York - Target's chief information officer has resigned as the retailer overhauls its information security practices in the wake of a giant customer data breach, the company said Wednesday.Beth Jacob, who was in charge of Target's computer systems since 2008, ...

The quiet of the evening at the Kunming railway station in Yunnan province, China was shattered last night. An unknown group of men wielding knives attacked innocent travelers, killing 29 and wounding an additional 162 people.

A British man has been charged with hacking into computer servers belonging to the U.S. Federal Reserve, and then widely disclosing personal information of people who use them.

Chinese President Xi Jinping is to take the reins of a government body for Internet security and aims to turn China into a "cyber power", official state media reported on Thursday, as the country steadily tightens its grip online.

Tokyo - Bitcoin users in Tokyo will gather on Thursday for a meeting set to be dominated by the shuttering of the MtGox exchange amid claims of a multi-million dollar theft.Dozens of members of "Bitcoin Tokyo" are expected to be at their weekly get-together, w...

Washington - A "sophisticated computer security attack" at the University of Maryland exposed personal data from more than 300,000 students, faculty and staff, the college president said.University president Wallace Loh notified the campus late Wednesday, adding in...

French aerospace engine maker Snecma, a unit of Safran, was attacked by hackers who exploited a vulnerability in Microsoft Corp's Internet Explorer, according to a computer security researcher.

Rebekah Brooks, the former boss of Rupert Murdoch's British newspapers, is due to begin her defense on Wednesday against allegations she was complicit in widespread phone-hacking at the now defunct News...

A French aerospace industry group targeted by a cyber attack using a flaw in recent versions of Internet Explorer said on Saturday its website had not been directly attacked but that hackers had created a fake address similar to its o...

A flaw in recent versions of Internet Explorer was used to attack visitors to a website for U.S.