With databases full of personal information and minimal security infrastructure, universities are seen as 'low hanging fruit' for hackers...

Microsoft rated one vulnerability with the less severe "important" ranking, but experts say that the glitch allows remote hackers to execute malicious code on unpatched computers...

The computer systems of US presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain were targeted by hackers this summer from an unknown "foreign entity," Newsweek magazine reported on Thursday...

Some of the most vicious Internet predators are hackers who infect thousands of PCs with special viruses and lash the machines together into "botnets" to pump out spam or attack other computers...

Hackers are increasingly targeting small and mid-size businesses, according to CA execs...

For decades, cybercrime has been the stuff of Hollywood thrillers and pulp fiction novels. But the days when cybercrime was tantamount to a gaggle of teen-age hackers creating viruses in their...

Hackers could launch denial of service attack or execute arbitrary code using security glitch, CA says in alert...

Computer security specialists warn that hackers are using fake YouTube pages to trick people into opening their machines to diabolical software...

Computer security company McAfee Inc plans to buy Secure Computing Corp for $465 million, adding specialized equipment that keeps hackers from breaking into computer networks. The move, McAfe...

The single, most serious threat to the security of sensitive information in today's world is not individual hackers, cybergangs, inadequate firewalls or missing patches, said Michael Scheidell,...