In recent months, government officials in the United States, the United Kingdom and other countries have made repeated calls for law-enforcement agencies to be able to access, upon due autho... Read more
If only computers themselves were smart enough to fight off malevolent hackers. That is the premise of an ambitious two-year contest with a $2 million first prize, posed to the world’s compu... Read more
The National Security Agency has implanted software in nearly 100,000 computers around the world that allows the United States to conduct surveillance on those machines and can also create a... Read more
Until recently, security was a backwater in the world of computing. Many people cite Albert Einstein’s aphorism “Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Only a hand... Read more
Cybersecurity is now a major international concern, with hackers gaining access to sensitive corporate and military secrets, including intellectual property. An American cybersecurity compan... Read more