Dating back to the 1980s, ransomware is a form of malware used by cybercriminals to lock files on a person's computer and demand payment to unlock them. The technology — which officially turned 35 in ...

Smart home hacking is a serious threat - but here's how experts actually stop it ...

In context: A new hacking technique raises concerns about how cyber warfare and espionage continue to evolve. As nation-state actors develop more sophisticated methods, the line between physical and ...

Most people see hackers as evil, but companies also use hackers to find and fix weaknesses in their systems. These ethical hackers—also known as "white hat hackers"—use the same techniques as regular ...

Preventing bank account hacking requires a combination of vigilant practices and utilization of bank-provided security measures. Always use strong, unique passwords ...

(AP) Law enforcement agencies across the globe are taking a page out of the hacker’s handbook, using targets’ own phones and computers to spy on them with methods traditionally associated with ...

Laser hacking. If there's one phrase that says we're already living in the future I imagined as a kid, it's laser hacking, or to give one method its more technical term, "laser fault injection". While ...

Researchers at FIU’s College of Engineering and Computing have developed an encryption algorithm to defend videos from attackers with access to the world's most powerful computers. The encryption ...

In modern microchips, where some transistors have been shrunk to less than a 10th of the size of a Covid-19 virus, it doesn't take much to mess with the minuscule electrical charges that serve as the ...