State-sponsored hackers' are being blamed for compromising the popular alternative to Windows Notepad over a period of six months last year.

Here's how you can check if your Social Security number was stolen in the data theft and what to do to secure your personal information. Clifford Colby Managing Editor Clifford is a managing editor at ...

Smart homes offer convenience with a side of security risks. Here's how to prevent hackers from gaining access to your smart ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Most of us now have a number of different devices, accessing a wide spectrum of online accounts and services. Any of these can be ...

1. Battery drains more quickly than usual. Any spyware installed on your phone is constantly running to snoop on your activity and send the data to the hacker. This means that your battery is going to ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Macs have famously good security, and the chances of getting hacked are comparatively low. But if it happens, there are ways to ...

Infrastructure delivering updates for Notepad++—a widely used text editor for Windows—was compromised for six months by ...

If a mail account is compromised, hackers can not only read messages, but also reset passwords and take over other accounts. This makes it all the more important to take an immediate and structured ...