Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover software security and privacy. Given the avalanche of media coverage this past week celebrating the 50th anniversary of ...

Namaswi Chandarana, a senior engineer at GameChanger, said "the most important survival skill" in a tech job is communication ...

“Obtaining a U.S. software patent is easier today than it was just a year ago, but still harder than it was five or ten years ago. These seven ‘lighthouse’ cases contain critical lessons for drafters ...

Recently I was on the task of getting some scripts together for handling FTP commands to run several time a day to move files around. Unfortunately, the platform that was already in place is a Windows ...

COMMENTARY--On a rocky plateau 300 million miles from here, The Mars Exploration Rover A--known to its friends and PR operatives as Spirit--sits quietly, conserving its strength after a near-fatal ...

The cyber community’s scramble to address major vulnerabilities in the widely used code library Log4j is just the latest wake-up call about the security risks of the open-source software ecosystem — ...