There are plenty of people, for plenty of reasons, who really don’t want to sign into their copy of Windows 11 using a Microsoft account, no matter how seamless an experience this brings to the ...

$1 million WhatsApp hack at Pwn2Own Ireland confirmed. October 23 should stick in the memory of smartphone users for some time to come. This is the day that the Samsung Galaxy S25 was hacked, ...

The spammers. The scammers. And you. Telemarketers and junk mail has evolved in the digital age to a behemoth of persistent trickery. In Scammed, we help you navigate a connected world that’s out for ...

A sweeping hack of the federal judiciary’s case filing system exploited unresolved security holes discovered five years ago — allowing hacking groups to steal reams of sensitive court data in the ...

We have a problem. Be you blogger, journalist, tech writer, or commenter (both racist and otherwise), it’s time to stop with the gratuitous overuse of “hacking.” Existence itself is not a hack. It’s ...

A version of this article was published in TIME’s newsletter Into the Metaverse. Subscribe for a weekly guide to the future of the Internet. You can find past issues of the newsletter here. It’s the ...

The United States government doesn't get along with hackers. That's just how it is. Hacking protected systems, even to reveal their weaknesses, is illegal under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, and ...