A DECADE AGO someone realised that the locks keeping swathes of the internet secure were not working. OpenSSL, a tool used to encrypt anything from social-media passwords to e-commerce purchases, had ...

The world is up in arms. Layoffs are happening at a higher rate than we’ve seen in over a decade yet the government is claiming the highest job numbers in many years. The price of everything is going ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. For decades, robots.txt governed the behavior of web crawlers. But as unscrupulous AI companies seek out more and ...

In 2020 XKCD, a popular online comic strip, published a cartoon depicting a teetering arrangement of blocks with the label: “all modern digital infrastructure”. Perched precariously at the bottom, ...

Microsoft Corp. confirmed late yesterday that some of the secret code underlying its Windows NT and Windows 2000 operating systems has been leaked on the Internet. The company played down any ...

Its Outline VPN can now be built directly into apps—making it harder for governments to block internet access, particularly during protests. Google is launching new anti-censorship technology created ...

In its seventh announced acquisition of 2023, Cisco’s company’s network intelligence arm revealed it has acquired Code BGP, a privately held Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) monitoring company. Cisco ...

Roughly 15 percent of the "source code" for Microsoft Windows NT and Windows 2000 computer operating systems — code usually encrypted to keep it secret — has appeared on some Internet file-sharing ...