Identity Theft, Hackers | featured news

It’s a good idea to be a little paranoid about password theft, and there are several ways to strengthen your defenses.

Thanks to the popularity of social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter, it's a given that malicious hackers will devise ways to exploit the sites' numerous users in order to infect their computers with malware. This unwanted software is designed to do a number of terrible things ranging from identity theft to turning computer into remote-controllable "zombie" machines.

International crime rings want your personal information. Here's how to make it hard for them to get it.

U.S. authorities announced what they believed to be the largest hacking and identity theft case ever prosecuted on Monday in a scheme in which more than 130 million credit and debit card numbers were stolen.