Randomness is hard. To be precise, without dedicated hardware, randomness is impossible for a computer. This is actually important to keep in mind when writing software. When there’s not hardware ...

COMMENTARY--Enterprises must act quickly to head off the hacker attacks that will almost certainly result from the revelation that there are many more security holes in the Simple Network Management ...

Microsoft Corp. on Feb. 15 released a patch for two versions of its Windows operating system to secure a hole discovered in a critical networking technology that could allow an attacker to stage ...

Software flaws in a fundamental language of the Internet have left the Information Age's basic infrastructure in danger of disruption, said an Internet security watchdog Tuesday. As previously ...

AJ Dellinger is a writer, reporter, and editor based in Madison, Wisconsin. He has been published in Wired, Gizmodo, CNET, and a variety of other publications. He has covered small business and ...

Researchers at Oulu University in Finland pretended to be hackers and issued commands to SNMP agents and management systems that a system doesn't usually expect. What they found was alarming. None of ...