April 27, 2011 6:37AM
Iran has been targeted by a new computer worm named Stars, according to an Iranian official.
March 04, 2011 11:07AM
When a computer crashes, our instinct is to reboot and not to question its root cause. But perhaps we should try to understand our failures before trying to forget them. Paul Kocher, president and chief scientist, of Cryptography Research, Inc. in San Francisco thinks that computer security industry's understanding of failure is still in its infancy, and that security practitioners today should ...
February 01, 2012 5:27AM
Building a Web application today means using a variety of different software technologies, each executing in a different domain. JavaScript, HTML, and CSS in the browser; PHP, Python, Java, Ruby, or the like on the server; MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, MongoDB, or any of a growing list of database servers as your persistent storage back-end. With Opa, an open source Web development technology ...
July 01, 2011 7:17PM
The "Indestructible Botnet" that has made the news in the last few days is not the immortal zombie it is sometimes portrayed as. Technical experts say that while it uses a few new variations on old tricks, it can be detected and removed without much difficulty. The virus, known as TDL-4, lives on a computer where it uses few computer resources to avoid detection--a computer infected with TDL-4 ...