Russia and the US are engaging in tit-for-tat hacking of each others’ power grid, the New York Times is reporting, in what is really a kind of cyber “cold war” where the hackers from each country’s military and intelligence services load electronic “explosives” in the computer systems of critical infrastructure of the other, that in a crisis or war could be “detonated” to create chaos or bring down electric grids. The Times article, the publication of which President Trump decried in a tweet as “close to treason,” was disturbing for a number or reasons. One was that sources told the Times the hacking by the US Cyber Command of Russia’s power grid had been conducted without the president’s...

The photo platform is testing a new way to get back into hacked accounts.

Protests and a threatened boycott lead the Black Hat hacker conference to axe its keynote speaker.

You can now recover your hacked Instagram accounts even if the attackers changed the email address and phone numbers needed for recovery.

Instagram is trying to make it easier to reclaim your account and username following a hack

"I feel gross, I feel watched, I feel someone has taken something from me that I only wanted one special person to see," Thorne wrote on Twitter.

Bella Thorne beat a hacker to the punch when she posted nude photos of herself that the alleged creep threatened to leak.

A Norwegian aluminium producer is recovering after hackers took thousands of computers offline and demanded a ransom.

Thorne alleged a hacker sent her her own photos as well as photos of other celebrities

Tennessee senator blocks a bill to mandate reporting foreign election aid, Because the GOP has a Russia problem. At least a dozen Republican congressional campaigns used materials stolen from Democrats by Russian hackers during the 2016 election. Several other Republican campaigns received millions in contributions from an oligarch with close ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin. In 2018, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee called on the National Republican Congressional Committee to make a bipartisan pledge not to utilize stolen or hacked information in House elections. After months of negotiations, in September of 2018, House Republicans backed out and refused to sign the...