You can accidentally and permanently ruin your computer a number of ways, from using a cheap power supply unit to updating ...

Carol, a Smith alum, had a big problem. She was sitting on a trove of old photos of her student days. Her plan was to donate them to the Smith College special collections. But her computer, Dell’s ...

LAS VEGAS (AP) -- An adviser to President Bush encouraged top computer security professionals and hackers Wednesday to try to break computer programs, offering to support and protect good-faith ...

In this excerpt from Chapter 5 of The Little Black Book of Computer Security, author Joel Dubin illustrates the ease with which a hacker can bypass a BIOS password and break into a computer. If the ...

Ongoing coverage of COVID-19, and its impact on Seattle and the technology industry. See all of GeekWire’s special coverage. by Kurt Schlosser on Apr 17, 2020 at 6:35 am April 16, 2020 at 9:38 pm Code ...

The history of computers is not just an intriguing account of amazing innovations. More importantly, it is the story of the people who helped us get there. These stories teach us lessons that go far ...

A group of Chinese researchers has claimed to be able to break a widely used encryption scheme with a quantum computer that already exists, creating a possible boon for surveillance and a crisis for ...

Spring Break means warmer weather and the allure of sunny beaches. But while sun-loving students head out to beaches every spring to enjoy sand and surf, ultraviolet rays could be damaging their ...