In November 2003, security researcher Barrett Lyon was finishing college at California State University, Sacramento, while working full time as a penetration tester—a hacker companies hire to find ...

When you're browsing online, you probably don't pay close attention to the URLs in the address bar of your browser, much less the IP addresses of the sites you're visiting or your own internet ...

Hackaday readers fit into two broad categories: those who experienced the wild and woolly early days of the Internet, and those who are jealous that they missed it. And it’s safe to say that both ...

While people often think of the Internet as an immaterial object, the data that makes up the Internet is actually stored at a very physical location: data servers. Businesses sometimes operate their ...

VeriSign today announced that it has added a server cluster in Sydney that will increase the speed and reliability of the Internet by allowing domain names to be resolved locally instead of using one ...

Free software isn't about free services or beer, it's about intellectual freedom. As recent episodes such as censorship in China, the Egyptian government turning off the Internet, and Facebook's ...