Not many insurance company employees can say they help unravel the secrets of the universe in their spare time.
Criminals behind the Storm worm have created a botnet containing millions of PCs, which have a combined computing power greater than the most powerful supercomputer in existence.
Sun Microsystems is to fund the next version of Seti@home, the distributed computing project that is looking for intelligent alien life.
The world's most powerful computer is sitting on your desktop and works only while you're asleep. Welcome to the world of distributed computing.
Free turns to fee as companies begin to charge for content and services. Will gated Internet communities bring a segregation of information?
The world of IT security is in chaos, with CSOs seemingly on the front lines of a full scale global cyberwar being fought out by government hackers, botnet-controlling criminal gangs and compromised Web sites. Can we ever hope to keep networks safe in such an environment?
Plans are afoot to attack spammers by launching the kind of cyber-attack favoured by organised crime and hackers with an axe to grind.
Harvard Law's Jonathan Zittrain writes that the filtering of Internet content is on the upswing, a trend that--left unchecked--threatens to undo a basic underpinning of the global cybernetwork.
Large enterprises often have massive computational needs without a matching budget. Find out how a distributed system using open source Condor can harness the processing power of idle desktops.
A growing army of PC owners is hoping to use the power of the masses to crack the main security code of Microsoft's Xbox and claim $100,000 in the process.
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