Hackers

After they momentarily took down the New York Times web site and Twitter, the Syrian Electronic Army gained a new notoriety.

At hacking conference Def Con, hackers look beyond just the internet.

Engineers like to take things apart to learn how they work. When applied to computer networks, the urge can increasingly get young techies in trouble.

As far back as the early 1900s, rural farmers and ranchers -- or you could call them hackers -- set up their own phone lines themselves.

Two dozen U.S. military weapons systems have been compromised by Chinese hackers, according to the Washington Post.

Twitter is launching a new extra layer of security, but will it stop hackers?

'Spear phishing', a form of targeted hacking, is drawing a lot of attention. How can you protect yourself?

Why a site that rents space to just about anyone is attacking vulnerabilities in the basic architecture of the Internet.

Corporations and the U.S. government team up to go on the offense against hackers.

Internet computing language Java may be leaving your computer vulnerable to hackers. Did overly-aggressive prosecutors drive software wunderkind Aaron Swartz to suicide? And, a look at a new technology that could change the future of keyboards and gaming controllers.