The appearance Monday of exploit code for the DLL loading issue that reportedly affects hundreds of Windows applications means hackers will likely start hammering on PCs shortly, security experts said.
Google's decision to push Adobe Flash security fixes using Chrome's silent update service has yielded a seven-fold increase in patching speed, a Google software engineer said.
Afilias, which operates .info and more than a dozen other Web site extensions, will announce on Monday plans to deploy an emerging standard known as DNSSEC that adds a layer of encryption to the Internet's Domain Name System.
In the year 2020, technical expertise will no longer be the sole province of the IT department. Employees throughout the organization will understand how to use technology to do their jobs.
Microsoft has known since at least February that dozens of Windows applications harbor bugs that hackers can exploit to seize control of computers, an academic researcher said.
The news of Intel acquiring McAfee for nearly $8 billion caught the tech world off guard and perplexed analysts at face value. The fact is that it doesn't make much sense based on the Intel and McAfee of today, but as the dust settles the deal makes more sense when viewed as a visionary shift with an eye on where technology is headed--everywhere.
