"Hacking" Blogs & Blog Posts

Three months ago, security firm Mandiant revealed that an army unit of Chinese hackers was to blame for attacks on U.S. targets for at least six years, stealing corporate and government secrets. Now, after a period in which the group shut down part o...

Edgertor says: "No list of hacker movies i've found includes this one from 1971, it might also be the earliest!" A prank that starts with a group of college students creating a fictitious person so they can get a credit card develops into a plot that...

Upcoming third-person action game Watch Dogs is set in a near-future environment modeled on Chicago, a city that's overseen by computers that can be manipulated. And while the game has some instances of fantastical hacking perpetrated by main charact...

We all thought it was a joke, but it wasn'tThe Onion really got hacked on Monday, and it was indeed victim of the Syrian Electronic Army (SAE), the pro-Assad group of "hacktivists" who have been hacking media companies left and right. In an unusual...

While tensions in Syria dominate headlines about the Middle East, a quiet digital battle is brewing in Iran as the June 14 presidential election approaches. Yesterday, the Basij force of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard claimed its websites were being...

While some people associate the word "jailbreaking" with prison riots or smartphone hacking, the most mainstream of cracking subcultures also takes on video game consoles. A mod chip developer known as WiiKey is now claiming to have reverse engineere...

For those who frequently use the free public Wi-Fi in coffee shops such as Starbucks and Dunkin' Donuts, you're likely already aware of how easy it is for hackers to steal your personal and financial information over the shared network But what you m...