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Hackers succeed 99 per cent of the time when they use human weakness as a tool for breaking into corporate systems, a security expert said Monday.

“Nice people finish last,” conventional wisdom tells us. But Tim Sanders proves that, on this point, conventional wisdom is wide off the mark. Sanders,...

Gamers can now turn their interest in computer games into an academic pursuit. The Faculty of Engineering at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ont., is offering an undergraduate program in software engineering that focuses on game design. Engineering courses include computer architecture and graphics processors, 4D modeling for virtual reality, real-time systems and control, real-time animation, and computer game interface design.

What does the job market look like from the perspective of someone who is trying to fill positions for companies looking for help with IT projects? What are the most important skills enterprises require of IT workers these days? ComputerWorld Canada department editor Patricia Pickett discussed all of this and more with Sathish Bala, president and CEO of Toronto-based New Age Consulting, a company that, depending on its client

The Global Information Assurance Certification (GIAC) has announced sweeping changes to its testing process that will allow the certification to better validate the skills of security professionals.

Someone once asked the great Spanish composer Joaquin Rodrigo how he would like to die. He replied,

Recent experiences with project management led me to find new meaning in the following quotation by Vroomfondel, a minor philosopher character in Douglas Adams

At Storage Networking World, Ann Livermore, executive vice-president of Hewlett-Packard Co.'s Technology Solutions Group, spoke to Computerworld U.S.'s Don Tennant about HP's recent hiring of Mark Hurd as CEO.