Robert McMillan writes about computer security, hackers and privacy from The Wall Street Journal’s San Francisco bureau. Previously, he was a writer at Wired, the IDG News Service and Linux Magazine, ...

The attacker does not steal a password directly or break into the computer, but instead studies the traces left behind by the ...

Over the last decade, including a stint on OpenAI’s board, I saw the open secret among AI developers: this kind of hack ...

Every message, financial transaction, medical record, or government document encrypted today could remain stored somewhere for years. Cybersecurity experts believe that future quantum computers may ...

China Central Television (CCTV) is broadcasting a five-episode documentary series on confidentiality and information security awareness from Tuesday to Saturday, with the first episode highlighting ...

April 27, 2008: Psystar’s first Mac clones ship to customers. The company’s new Open Computer means that, for the first time since the mid-1990s, there’s no need to assemble a “hackintosh” to run OS X ...

The first time Rachael Morrison heard of Joybubbles, the legal name of Joe Engressia, he had already passed. She read about him in an obituary in The New York Times, which called him the “Peter Pan of ...

An ExxonMobil gas station in Hiawassee, Georgia. Credit: Harrison Keely, CC BY 4.0 An Israeli private investigator wanted by U.S. law enforcement for allegedly orchestrating an illegal ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

The Hacker Who Beat the FBI at Their Own Game is a true crime documentary about Kevin Mitnick — the most wanted hacker in America during the 1990s. In November 1992, Mitnick vanished just hours before ...