It’s easy to feel overwhelmed by the number of steps you can take to keep yourself and your computer safe and running smoothly. With the increasing number of cybercriminals, it can feel like you are ...

Computers house so much of our personal data that it’s essential to set up protective measures in case of cyber attack or mechanical failure. These five must-do steps dramatically increase the odds ...

I frequently give talks on the state of today's malware. In a nutshell, it is highly sophisticated, criminal-motivated, and out to steal your money. Despite the nearly universal use of anti-malware ...

Our computers store a lot of important information about us, including our addresses, passwords and credit card information. Viruses and other malware can be used to steal this data, slow down our ...

Computer chipmakers have spent years strengthening processors against attacks that exploit the way modern CPUs predict what they will need to do next. But MIT researchers have discovered a new ...

Many computers stopped working after the CrowdStrike update. This showed that letting other companies have a lot of power over the Windows system can be risky. CrowdStrike’s Falcon software is good at ...

An international conference on computer security in the nuclear world opened at the IAEA headquarters in Vienna today, to discuss effective security measures to protect against cyber-attacks on ...

Even though we have a new Congress, I doubt that much will change with regard to computer security. While a law related to identity theft will probably be passed in one form or another, I expect that ...

In February 2022, I wrote in a Computer Weekly article about metacognition, the ability to think about thinking, remains a critical gap to the development of artificial intelligence (AI). I pointed to ...