A few days after Kay Pedersen reserved a hotel room in Chiang Mai, Thailand, through Booking.com, she received an alarming email. It was a warning from Booking.com in broken English that there had ...

Just last Wednesday, I posted a column reporting how our richest corporations, through sheer miserliness and profit-seeking, left millions of Americans vulnerable to technological attacks on their ...

Star Wars Battlefront 2 players on PC aren't happy due to hackers affecting gameplay in the Galactic Assault multiplayer mode. Some players suggest switching to Supremacy mode to avoid hackers ...

Just last Wednesday, I posted a column reporting how our richest corporations, through sheer miserliness and profit-seeking, left millions of Americans vulnerable to technological attacks on their ...

In November 1988, a graduate student at Cornell University named Robert Morris, Jr. inadvertently sparked a national crisis by unleashing a self-replicating computer worm on a VAX 11/750 computer in ...

How bad is crypto’s cybersecurity problem? Well, just look at the news. Last week began with a report that North Korean hackers—who steal crypto to pay for their mad dictator’s nuclear weapons schemes ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. Update, May 6, 2025: This story, originally published May 3, ...

A German court has charged a programmer investigating an IT problem with hacking and fined them €3,000 ($3,265) for what it deemed was unauthorized access to external computer systems and spying on ...

"We remain committed to protecting the confidentiality and security of patient information, and apologize for the concern this may cause." This was part of a letter I received the other day, dated ...

Activision has brought the Microsoft PC store version of Call of Duty: WW2 offline, as it investigates what it calls "an issue." While it's currently unclear what the developer thinks this problem is, ...