Step one is to know what the dangers are, and sensational TV shows turn out to be a bad guide.A large government-industry-academic team has released a report on dangers to minors online ...

The extensive publicity about this piece of malware, which has infected millions of Windows PCs, usually leaves out some things you'd want to know.For example, you might wonder how to tell if ...

Here are some more university studies of voting machine security. The key quote, more important than the fact that they demonstrated a virus copying itself from one voting machine to another and ...

This is a good example of how a simple feature change can create a security issue, and why security features that seem unnecessary can be important in practice.Google's Chrome browser has a ...

Chrome will save passwords for you, but unlike Firefox it doesn't let you define a master password that protects all your stored website passwords. This could be OK. I worry about future ...

Google accidentally pre-announced a Google-brand web browser. It's not available to try out yet. It's going to do some encouraging things about security. Google plans to "sandbox" the web applications running in ...

I've written before about the limitations on the "certification" of voting machines.There's been more talk about it recently. Wired magazine's criticism of voting machine testing notes that problems go years without being ...