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 ...

“I spent $174 million on a website and all I got was this bad press.” Someone, somewhere in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Well, at least someone should have said it.

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 ...

In 2011, Marc Andreessen coined a phrase we're now all familiar with: "Software is eating the world." More than 13 years later, the expression still rings true. The world runs on software, and each ...

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 — ...

“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 ...

The complexity of today's software development — a mix of open source and third-party components, as well as internally developed code — has resulted in an abundance of vulnerabilities for attackers ...

Wondering how to do good SOA? Check out these 10 lessons learned as presented by Ian Koenig, Thomson Financial's senior vice president and chief architect. Dave Rosenberg has more than 15 years of ...