Digging into how sites and web content management systems are most often hacked, and what you can do to reduce the risk of it happening to you. (Editor's note: This story has been updated.) We hear ...

Kevin Mitnick's Web site has been placed on a special server for continuous monitoring after it was hacked and defaced, Mitnick's Web hosting company said. Mitnick's Web site on Sunday displayed a ...

Website hacking is nothing new, but the techniques of a hacker are in constant flux. In an attempt to keep up with this ever-evolving digital dark art, the US government alone spent a whopping $14 ...

In the first article of this series, I discussed the various types of hackers that Web service developers must be aware of and considered the first line of defense, Secure Sockets Layer (SSL). I ...

The most prominent provider of free site hosting on the Dark Web has been taken down by hackers. Here's what happened and why it matters. The operator of the biggest free host for dark web sites, ...

The best way to learn to play defense is to play offense, and the OWASP Broken Web Applications Project makes it easy for application developers, novice penetration testers, and security-curious ...

The cyber attack on Jaguar Land Rover has been blamed on Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters, which is a group of British and American ...

Dubbed Rank My Hack, the hacker community site assigns point values to hacks. The bigger the site a person hacks, the more points they receive. CNET contributor Don Reisinger is a technology columnist ...

It’s the worst thing that can happen to a computer security vendor: This weekend, Moscow’s Kaspersky Lab was hacked. A hacker, who identified himself only as Unu, said that he was able to break into a ...

The Web is an increasingly unfriendly place. According to a study by Google released last February, 5% of 60 million Web sites analyzed were found to have malicious software that could be invisibly ...