Simson Garfinkel is a senior data scientist at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and a part-time faculty member at George Washington University. He has written extensively on computer security, ...

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Planning to auction off that old computer on eBay? You might want to take a closer look at what’s on your disk drive first. According to a new study by two MIT graduate students, companies and ...

What is spyware? Many of today's definitions are inconsistent. A solution would be to require software vendors to document the behaviors in their software that most computer users find surprising.