A "Hack the Future" mentor shows a young boy how to use block programming at the hacking event for kids grades 5-12 at the Tech Museum in San Jose Calif., on August 20, 2011.Audrey Whitmeyer ...

“My habit was collecting. Collecting data, organizing data, downloading data, creating folders.” In 2018, at age 16, Van der Stap signed up for vocational college to study computer programming.

The "incremental-hacking cycle" suggested here will likely be familiar to anyone who's taken a hands-on approach to learning to code: Pick an open source program you're interested in, find a small ...

Owning a computer once went hand in hand with understanding exactly how it worked. That may have changed but Tom Chatfield says it's time to reclaim the past.

'Mayhem' Computer Program Wins DARPA Hacking Challenge DARPA's Cyber Grand Challenge tasked teams with writing a program that can fix bugs in mere seconds.

In what appears to be the first successful hack of a software program using DNA, researchers say malware they incorporated into a genetic molecule allowed them to take control of a computer used ...