The U.S. federal government is worried about the Swine Flu (official name: 2009 H1N1 influenza virus). There have been predictions by experts of two or three times the normal number of flu related ...

Attackers target remote desktop software platforms for the same reason that makes these platforms useful for distance learning: They grant almost total access to a target computer from anywhere in the ...

Trend Micro is a $1B+ cybersecurity company founded in 1988 to produce antivirus products for LANs, which it licensed to Intel. Over the years, the company added anti-spam and anti-spyware software, ...

A German research student says that under the right conditions, hackers could steal information off CRT computer screens by measuring the light reflected from a user’s face. Markus Kuhn, a doctoral ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about contemporary cybersecurity and online privacy issues. Integrating computer vision technology is a big step forward ...

IT security leaders are recognising the risks and opportunities of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) for enterprise IT. In April 2023, a survey conducted with Gartner’s Peer Community of IT ...

When the president releases a new budget, Karen Evans finds herself in demand. She draws a crowd because, as the government's high-tech policy chief, she oversees big money for computer systems and ...

Imagine buying a hundred-year-old house. To keep your family safe, you need to update the antiquated plumbing and electrical systems to meet current building standards. But there's no existing ...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas doesn’t do enough to secure computer systems used by its state government, making confidential information vulnerable to hackers, a legislative audit said Thursday. Auditors ...

AI may also help nuclear and radiological facilities sharpen their defences against cyberattacks by identifying anomalous data in computer systems. (Image: AdobeStock) Artificial intelligence (AI) and ...

The IAEA has launched a new research project to enhance computer security for artificial intelligence systems that may be used in the nuclear sector. The project aims to strengthen computer security ...