Antivirus companies typically bill themselves as offering critical protection when you need it most, but the timeliness of the protection is a matter of concern. There's some reason to suspect AV companies may be moving too slowly on this one, with a majority of scanners failing to detect malware up to three days after it's seen on the web.
Soon you may not need to squint at distorted letters to prove your humanity.
In the wild, wild west, when a poker player was caught cheating it was a capital offense, with the punishment quickly dispensed right across the card table. But today if you're caught cheating in the popular and lucrative world of Internet poker, you may get away scot-free.
It's no surprise that ISPs are aggressively pursuing new revenue streams, but UK ISP BT may have crossed the line. Two years ago it retained search records and information on some 18,000 users, without informing them first.
Security researchers at Microsoft Corp. last week warned of a significant climb in exploits of a Windows bug it patched with an emergency fix last month, confirming earlier reports by Symantec Corp.
Darpa, the Defense Department's far-out research arm, announced a pair of contracts yesterday, to start designing a super, .50-caliber sniper rifle that fires guided bullets. Lockheed Martin recieved $12.3 million for the "EXACTO" (EXtreme ACcuracy Tasked Ordnance) project, while Teledyne Scientific & Imaging, LLC got another $9.5 million.
Want to speed up your broadband connection? Diagnose mysterious crashes? Move massive files across the Internet? Sooner or later, you will--and you'll find step-by-step instructions for these and other common PC tasks right here.
Lenovo is working with Phoenix on a BIOS that will let you disable a ThinkPad notebook PC by sending it an SMS text message. The feature should be available early next year, reports TG Daily.
This video will teach you how to turn those cheap mini-lasers into a security system that keeps out burglars and warns you of intruders. It's easy to make, and cheap too.
You lost your notebook? You are worried about the data that might be exposed. No problem: Kill the notebook with a text message...
In the US, cell phone jammers can only legally be used by federal law enforcement agencies. But a move is afoot to expand their use in state and local law enforcement, an effort promoted in part by a company that makes the hardware.
Richard Farina booted up his computer on an American Airlines flight in October from New York to San Francisco. It was one of the first commercial flights to offer wireless Internet service. Within a couple minutes of reaching 10,000 feet, Farina was snooping the airwaves with the ability to see what his fellow pass
Several things have happened in the last two days that have made me believe that Gmail has a serious security flaw and everyone should be aware about it.
One company, Bit9, is predicting that every desktop will soon only allow known good files to load, instead of using resources to block unknown files.
A California online coupon generating company is dropping its Digital Millennium Copyright Act lawsuit against a man sued for posting commands allowing users to print an unlimited number of valid coupons.
Records from a cell phone used by President-elect Obama were improperly breached, apparently by employees of Verizon Wireless, his transition team said Thursday.
Hide those keys. A quick camera phone picture could unlock your doors.