SECURITY

The first line of cyberdefense is having a good password. What does research say about what that actually means?

File sharing networks have been a target for hackers since at least 2004. Bolt is only the latest victim.

The total costs of the event amount to roughly 2 percent of the department store's annual net income, but plenty of the materials are recycled year after year.

In this situation, the North Korean commanders of the military unit might have gone through punishment for letting the defection take place, the unnamed intelligence source said.

TSA's new screening process could make traveling this holiday season more stressful.

A hacker attempted to hold the Sacramento Public Transportation System ransom after breaching its systems.

Uber experienced a massive breach that exposed the personal information of more than 57 million drivers and customers and attempted to hide it.

Google has been secretly tracking the location of users even when they have opted out of Android's location services, according to a new report.

The FBI has charged an Iranian national who worked on behalf of the Iranian military with hacking HBO and leaking 'Game of Thrones' episodes.

More than 400 of the internet's most trafficked websites contain a session replay script that can track every keystroke and click a user makes while on the site—including recording passwords and other sensitive information.

A new attack using an Android service called MediaProjection could allow a hacker to record audio and on-screen activity from a person's smartphone.

Agent Rogelio Martinez was found “unconscious, with multiple injuries to his head and body." A Border Patrol spokesman, however, said they were unable to provide details on what caused the agent’s injuries.

The databases belonging to the Defense Department contained at least 1.8 billion internet posts scared by intelligence services from news sites, comment sections, web forums and social media including Facebook.

A group of Muslim hackers is claiming responsibility for knocking an ISIS new organization's website offline.

Albuquerque International Sunport was locked down amid a security concern near a TSA checkpoint.

Security vulnerabilities related to Bluetooth leave the Amazon Echo and Google Home susceptible to being hacked.

Android users have found deleted WhatsApp messages can still be read by the recipient.

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Russian government-backed trolls made thousands of posts a day urging people to vote for Brexit in the lead up to the controversial vote last year.

The White House revealed its process for disclosing security vulnerabilities, and the policy has drawn criticism for allowing the government to keep exploits for itself.

Fashion retailer Forever 21 experienced a data breach that exposed data from customer credit cards.