'Watch Dogs' dials down the hacking, and dials up the explosions in its latest trailer...

Possibly inspired by Patrick Carney's brilliant Bieber trolling expedition, Burger King's Twitter was hacked and turned into a McDonald's Twitter account.

Someone in Montana hacked into the Emergency Alert System to warn that "bodies of the dead are rising from their graves and attacking the living."

The FTC wants robocalls dead, and they're willing to pay to get it done.

Twitter apparently does not believe anybody tries the brute force attack anymore. Also, people vote on sensible policy ideas! And unicorns are real!

Bashar Al-Assad is, and we hope we're not being too subtle in our feelings here, a complete and total monster currently committing war crimes because the citizens of the country he rules with an iron fist would like somebody who isn't a douchebag, please.

Back in October, we started covering the Microsoft/FIFA hacking scandal.

It seems that nobody over the age of forty seems able to comprehend that taking down a website is a fairly easy thing to do.

We get that running cheap software on a computer is a hallmark of the franchise business; you've got to save money where you can.