Click here to see the graphic! United States politicians have been working hard to pass new legislation that could change the Internet forever. The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect Intellectual Property Act (PIPA) are laws designed to stop Internet copyright infringement by giving American governments the...

A great many products and applications are made possible by the Java programming language. Currently under a GNU General Public License, its use is especially widespread. It can be found in cryptographic programs, mobile applets and smart phones (Google’s Android phones, for instance) and is one of the most...

Protecting against malicious websites and attacks that could compromise sensitive information, Secure Sockets Layer protocol is like your personal online bodyguard. Effectively responsible for the internet being a reliable marketplace, SSL has changed culture in  meaningful ways.  The following quality resources will explain the development of SSL, how it...

  Information Technology (IT) covers a continuously changing field as technological leaps occur at a mind-boggling pace. The Internet has become easily accessible because of a networking computer advancement known as TCP/IP. Originating in the latter part of the last century with the U.S. government’s collaboration with researchers to devise...

What is a computer virus, other than something you know you don’t want? Many people have a general idea of what a computer virus is (something that does bad stuff to your computer) but don’t know the difference between malware, like a Trojan horse, and a virus. A virus...

Optimization is a chief concern among computer scientists. Solving questions on how to make computers run more efficiently and quickly is constantly being pushed to new levels by consumer demand. One method of reducing an application’s run-time is through the use of threads to distribute a task of a...