Safe coding is a collection of software design practices and patterns that allow for cost-effectively achieving a high degree ...

In this interview, law professor Corinna Barrett Lain discusses her book “Secrets of the Killing State,” which exposes the troubling realities behind lethal injection as a method of execution. Lain, a ...

More than 40,000 WordPress sites using the Quiz and Survey Master plugin have been affected by a SQL injection vulnerability that allowed authenticated users to interfere with database queries. The ...

Anthropic’s agentic tool Claude Code has been an enormous hit with some software developers and hobbyists, and now the company is bringing that modality to more general office work with a new feature ...

On January 25 th 2003, the Slammer worm exploited a vulnerability in SQL Server 2000, to execute a buffer overflow attack, affecting customers of Microsoft’s relational database management system.

Access to high school computer science courses has plateaued, and overall high school student participation in those classes has declined slightly, concludes Code.org’s annual report on the state of ...

UC Berkeley has long been considered among the world’s most selective colleges and is home to top-ranked programs in computer science, data science and statistics. UC Berkeley students seeking to add ...

Space and time aren’t just woven into the background fabric of the universe. To theoretical computer scientists, time and space (also known as memory) are the two fundamental resources of computation.

Prompt injection vulnerabilities may never be fully mitigated as a category and network defenders should instead focus on ways to reduce their impact, government security experts have warned. Then ...

The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has highlighted a potentially dangerous misunderstanding surrounding emergent prompt injection attacks against generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) ...