You may not realise it, but your IP address being visible is risky because everyone – including your internet service provider (ISP), the government, and curious snoopers – can use it to track what ...

The man who traced the IP address of the hacker who accessed Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s e-mail account last week confirmed today that it belongs to an Illinois company that provides Internet service to ...

Hackers didn’t need Paddy Power and Betfair users’ passwords to start building targeted scams using personal betting activity Even without card details, stolen emails and IPs can power highly ...

I’m no lawyer, but this seems a bit frightening. As the story goes, a well-known hacker named George Hotz—also known as GeoHot—figured out how to “jailbreak” Sony’s PlayStation 3 video game console.