The word ‘hacker’ conjures up an image: an evil person keen on disrupting systems for fun’s sake-and so that he (a hacker is usually a ‘he’) can boast to his friends about the systems he’s breached.

His 1967 book, “The Codebreakers,” introduced the world to cryptology and inspired the emergence of private-sector encrypted communication. By Clay Risen David Kahn, whose 1967 book, “The Codebreakers ...

One of the Second World War’s most fascinating stories is that of the Allied codebreakers, who deciphered a vast number of German secret messages by decrypting their ingenious ciphering machine, the ...

A RARE opportunity to get up close to a Second World War Enigma machine will be on offer at a County Durham theatre. Dr Mark Baldwin has dedicated the last 25 years of his life to telling the ...