SAN FRANCISCO -- Federal prosecutors say Reuters' deputy social media editor conspired with a notorious hacker network to cause an online security breach that should be punished by decades in federal ...

There's senior pranks, and then there's simultaneously rickrolling over 11,000 of your fellow high school students. This past April, a group of teenage hackers worked together to project Rick Astley's ...

A Twitter hacking scheme which targeted high profile users such as Elon Musk and Barack Obama began as a prank between a group of three hackers, according to a report. The biggest attack in the social ...

A Japanese hacker who’s taunted police for months with false trails may have just perpetrated one of the greatest criminal pranks of the Internet age. After solving a series of emailed riddles, ...

Lee County schools report that their student Chromebooks were not hacked, and it all stemmed from a prank email that never led to any security breaches. According to the Lee County School District, it ...

A judge in Dublin ruled against prison time Monday for Donncha O’Cearbhaill, a security researcher and former “LulzSec” hacker convicted of publishing a bogus obituary for Rupert Murdoch on one of the ...