ASRG members sounded an optimistic note about the new unification subcommittee and the prospect of solving the spam problem with protocols, rather than legal curbs or economic disincentives that would force people to pay to send email on a per...
They then used an algorithm that partitions the graph into discrete communities, progressively weeding out correspondence across communities, in order to identify separate groups. The researchers acknowledge that the application of the finding...
Here, the signature does not refer to the electronic equivalent of a hand-written signature, but to the typical trace a hacker leaves behind. Marc Dacier, manager of IBM's Global Security Analysis Laboratory in Zurich, explained: "We have developed...
Elliptic curve cryptography will enable secure communications with devices that don't have as much calculating power as most desktop computers, said Whitfield Diffie, Sun's chief security officer and a pioneer of the Diffie-Hellman "public key...
The note, from research firm ZapThink, says that with the appearance of more applications based on web services - a programming method and set of standards specifically designed to link disparate systems - services companies will start shifting to...
Specifically, Apple refers to the technique of "code obfuscation", in which software makers employ techniques that make it harder for those using debuggers or emulators to figure out how a particular block of code is working.