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The phone hacking scandal engulfing Rupert Murdoch's News Corp threatened to spread to other titles on Friday, as sources said a journalist at the Sun newspaper had been arrested over allegations of police bribery.

Cyber-attacks by Chinese and Russian intelligence services, as well corporate hackers in those countries, have swallowed up large amounts of high-tech American research and development data, and that stolen information has helped build their economies, U.S. intelligence agencies have concluded.

Anonymous, the group of high-powered hackers famous for taking down websites belonging to Bank of America, Sony, has turned its vigilante brand of online activism on child pornography sites.

When a computer attack hobbled Iran's unfinished nuclear power plant last year, it was assumed to be a military-grade strike, the handiwork of elite hacking professionals with nation-state backing.

The New York Stock Exchange's website experienced slowness for a brief period of time Monday afternoon, on the same day that the hacker group "Anonymous" called for an attack against the Big Board operator's site.

Scotland Yard has arrested two men who together used the online pseudonym Kalya and were central figures in the notorious online hacker groups Anonymous and LulzSec

Apparently, "Anonymous" won't be accepting your friend request.

If you've seen the 1983 movie "WarGames," in which a young Matthew Broderick accidentally uses computers to bring the world to the edge of "global thermonuclear war," then you have a pretty good idea what hackers and security researchers are super-concerned about these days -- in real life.

The group known as Anonymous said Saturday it has hacked some 70 law enforcement websites across the southern and central United States in retaliation ...

Forget computer viruses and worms. What's maybe the worst thing a hacker could do to your laptop?