Why can some messages be compressed while others cannot? This video explores Huffman coding and Shannon’s concept of entropy, showing how probability and information theory determine the ultimate ...

Every day humanity creates billions of terabytes of data, and storing or transmitting it efficiently depends on powerful ...

Is this a virus?: Classic ZIP bombs and other archive-based tricks have long given cybercriminals a convenient way to sneak malware onto unsuspecting systems. A newly documented technique claims to go ...

Racing ahead.

A new technique dubbed "Zombie ZIP" helps conceal payloads in compressed files specially created to avoid detection from security solutions such as antivirus and endpoint detection and response (EDR) ...

Machine learning is the ability of a machine to improve its performance based on previous results. Machine learning methods enable computers to learn without being explicitly programmed and have ...