In the year of "rigged" election claims, security firm Recorded Future says it identified a Russian-speaking hacker attempting to sell accounts that have access to the US Election Assistance ...

(Getty Images / Bloomberg) Dear People of the Backchannel, Steven here. Every August, in the summer heat of Las Vegas, two big security conferences come in sequence, both imbued with the spirit of ...

A tranche of long-dormant Bitcoin seized in the 2016 hack of the Bitfinex cryptocurrency exchange are on the move today, an over $620 million sum that has some market participants spooked and may be ...

FILE - In this March 1, 2016, file photo, a Republican voter circles his choice for a Republican presidential candidate in Fairbanks, Alaska. Alaska officials say a hacker gained access to a server ...

Attorneys for the US government recently submitted a motion requesting that the Bitcoin (BTC) forfeited as a result of the 2016 Bitfinex hack should be returned to the cryptocurrency exchange. The Jan ...

Hackers have transferred roughly $38.7M out of $1.3B worth of Bitcoin from wallets connected to the infamous 2016 hack of crypto exchange Bitfinex. Some of the 119,756 Bitcoin that was stolen from ...

Can social media even exist without political debate? What about trolls? Hacker News, the social news site run by Y Combinator, is trying to find out. The head of the Hacker News community since 2014, ...

Neera Tanden, a top official in the Biden White House, expressed outrage over what she called a “double standard” in the media’s response to a hack of the Trump campaign after her communications were ...

Longtime Trump confidant Roger Stone apparently wasn’t the only Republican political operative in touch with Guccifer 2.0, the alleged front for Russian intelligence agents that hacked the Democratic ...

PHOENIX — The 2016 Presidential election was not a nail biter in Arizona. But leading up to it there were concerns about maintaining its integrity. For Bill Maaske, the Chief Information Officer for ...