Security researchers will detail today a new variation of a cold boot attack that can meddle with a computer's firmware to disable security measures and allow an attacker to recover sensitive data ...

Alfred Ng was a senior reporter for CNET News. He was raised in Brooklyn and previously worked on the New York Daily News's social media and breaking news teams. Security researchers have discovered a ...

There is a tendency to picture computers as cold, precise things, sealed away in clean rooms and humming quietly under desks.

According to new research published today, modern RAM cards are still vulnerable to Rowhammer attacks despite extensive mitigations that have been deployed by manufacturers over the past six years.

Most modern computers, even devices with disk encryption, are vulnerable to a new attack that can steal sensitive data in a matter of minutes, new research says. In new findings published Wednesday, F ...

A group of computer scientists have found a way to tame multiprocessor computers, which behave in wildly unpredictable ways even as the systems become widespread in the industry. Computers should not ...

Getting retro hardware up and running again is sometimes a feat, and the amount of effort needed tends to go up exponentially with increased hardware age. Getting an IDE hard drive running again is ...

The electronic systems in modern cars and trucks under new scrutiny as regulators continue to raise concerns about Toyota vehicles are packed with up to 100 million lines of computer code, more than ...

The Harvard College Observatory (now the Center for Astrophysics) in Cambridge, Massachusetts has long been a bastion of astronomical research, its history stretching back to the center's founding in ...

Researcher in brain electrodynamics at the Centre for Neural Engineering, The University of Melbourne I find myself in a kind-of modern version of the phlogiston story with my research into artificial ...