Cyber Crime

Aaron Swartz, the celebrated open internet campaigner and co-founder of the Reddit site has died aged 26 – in an apparent suicide.

Britain's armed forces have no back-up if a cyber attack downs their information and communications.

Christopher Weatherhead, a 22-year-old British student, has been convicted for taking part in cyber-attacks carried out by Anonymous.

Updated Microsoft has disabled Skype's password reset tool, after Russian hackers explosed a loophole in the service's security.

Charges against Sony have been dismissed by a judge, who said: "there is no such thing as perfect security."

Gary McKinnon will not be sent to stand trial in the USA, on grounds of human rights.

Anonymous has hit back at claims it didn't hack the FBI, insisting that the UDIDs it leaked did come from the Feds.

Updated GoDaddy went down early Monday, taking with it million of websites plus email addresses, phone service and DNS service.

In Depth An event that teaches kids to code and to hack government data? We take a closer look.

News in Brief Rovio wants you to make like a turncoat and side with the pigs in its new game that we're just about managing to give a hoot about.