Robert McMillan

The U.S. federal government has shut down two California Web sites that were redirecting readers to unauthorized content, after the sites have been reportedly hacked. Late last week, compromised pages hosted by the Brookhaven National Laboratory and the Superior Court of Madera County, California, were still hosting inappropriate content.

The U.S. federal government took steps earlier this week to shut down Web sites in California in order to protect the public from hacked Web sites, but new incidents show that the problem is not going away any time soon.

Web surfers know that visiting gambling or pornographic sites could harm their computers, but lately attack code can be downloaded from almost anywhere.

The company decides to scrap its controversial practice of staggering the release of patches. Instead, it will release updates for all supported Java SE platforms simultaneously

Processor makers are already adding up to eight "brains" per CPU, but early experiments that look like a grid map of a city may offer some extra room for even greater performance

California's secretary of state has mandated tough new security standards for the state's e-voting systems and curtailed their use, following an independent review of the technology. The order comes just days after several teams of researchers from the University of California evaluated the security, accessibility and usability of voting machines.

California Secretary of State Debra Bowen has revealed that researchers commissioned by the State of California have found security issues in every electronic voting system they tested. Testers were able to overwrite firmware, bypass locks on the systems, forge voter cards, and even secretly install a wireless device.

Just days after a security researcher blasted its Java patching system, Sun Microsystems Inc. has issued a critical update to the consumer version of its Java software.