How a legally dubious FBI sting lured a pair of Russian hackers stateside.

The backstory on Julian Assange’s relationship with the Guardian and the New York Times.

A tech neophyte looks for answers in Silicon Valley, “the last place in America where people are this optimistic.”

Inside the world of competitive coding.

What happened to the minds behind Napster, Gnutella, WinAmp, and BitTorrent after their creations irrevocably changed business and culture.

The prosecutor in the case of hacker turned F.B.I. informant (but still hacker) Albert Gonzales and his organization Shadowcrew : “The sheer extent of the human victimization caused by Gonzalez and his organization is unparalleled.”

How two Italian teenagers hacked the Soviet space program and may have heard the dying breaths of a lost cosmonaut.

Are we at war? The U.S. government’s evolving response to cyber security and its impact on privacy.

An early 1995 peek at what happens when secretive groups meet the Internet: a Scientology Usenet group, populated by believers and critics, stirs conflict that results in raids.

In the wake of 9/11, terrorist networks moved their recruitment and training efforts online, giving birth to Jihad-geeks like Irhabi_007.

A teenage Florida hacker crew, millions of credit cards numbers stolen by driving by big box stores and entering their networks, $1.1 million in cash buried in a backyard, an FBI snitch,  and how it all fell apart.

The Conficker ‘worm’ has replicated itself across tens of millions of computers. Only a few hundred people have the knowledge to recreate how, and no one (except its anonymous maker) fully understands why.