Whether most parents like it or not, their children know more about computers than they do. That doesn't apply to the offspring of computer savvy parental units, mind you, but it's true of the average ...

Most people don’t think twice about picking up a phone charging cable and plugging it in. But one hacker’s project wants to change that and raise awareness of the dangers of potentially malicious ...

DEF CON, one of the world’s largest and longest-running computer hacking conferences, was called off Friday as a result of the continuing global coronavirus pandemic. Jeff Moss, DEF CON’s founder, ...

DEF CON and Black Hat announced today that their upcoming security conferences in Las Vegas this summer will no longer be in-person and are instead moving to an all-virtual event. Every summer, large ...

Earlier this year, two hackers broke into one machine and discovered something wild. It wasn’t just some random server. It ...

An iPhone Lightning cable that has been configured to enable remote, malicious access to a computer is not just on show at Def Con this year, it's on sale. The cable looks and works like an original ...

My permanent "big screen" computer turned out to be a 5-year-old laptop whose liquid crystal display had died in an unfortunate bouncing accident a year before. It wasn't worth a pricey screen ...

WASHINGTON -- At least eight foreign-sponsored organizations have hacked into computer networks at the Veterans Affairs Department in recent years or were actively trying to do so, a former VA ...

Computers slow down for any number of reasons, but most of those boil down to one thing – us using them. As you download programs, install extensions, surf the web, create files, and fill your hard ...

TAMPA, July 27 -- The Department of Veterans Affairs said Tuesday that it is scrapping a hospital's troubled new computer system because of problems that have delayed surgeries, prompted congressional ...