Moves by several European countries to tighten laws against computer hacking worry security professionals, who often use the same tools as hackers but for legitimate purposes. The U.K. and Germany are ...

In the closing days of August, two federal appeals courts issued noteworthy decisions at the intersection of workplace conduct, computer law and online platforms. The two opinions were released during ...

This month, police officers in Marion, Kan., crashed into the newsroom of the Marion County Record, a weekly newspaper, and the home of its publisher to seize computers, cellphones and documents.

Legal and IT experts have made submissions to the government’s call for views on the current rules around the use of computer evidence in court, which closes today. The wider public understanding of ...

Transformational technologies like artificial intelligence and machine learning profoundly impact the legal landscape, both in terms of how computation is changing legal systems and law practice and ...

A draft cybersecurity bill circulating among House Judiciary Committee members would stiffen a computer hacking law used to bring charges against Internet activist Aaron Swartz. The bill draft would ...

A federal judge in Texas sent a strong message last week to potential hackers looking to target law firms. Former Locke Lord IT engineer Anastasio Laoutaris, 41, was sentenced to more than nine years ...

The Marion raid appears to be the first time public officials have searched a newspaper under the claim of enforcing a computer crime law. The state computer crime statute applies when someone breaks ...