For all of its virtual connotations, the Internet depends entirely upon its physical infrastructure to move information around. And the physical distance from server to end user leaves plenty of time ...

Almost two years after first being documented, Web Cache Deception attacks are still a major issue, and they still impact many popular websites. New academic research published this month reveals that ...

(1) A folder full of Web pages in the user's computer that is maintained by the Web browser for a period of time. If the local, cached page has not been updated on the Web, it is retrieved immediately ...

Why Caching Matters In the early days of the Web, when network traffic was much lower, caching wasn’t as important. But with hundreds of millions of new computers coming onstream every year and most ...

(1) Writing source code with programming structures that align more favorably with memory caches. See cache. (2) Designing a website with Web caching in mind. Various techniques help a Web cache ...

"Police blotter" is a weekly News.com report on the intersection of technology and the law. What: Pennsylvania man appealed his conviction for knowingly possessing downloaded child pornography, saying ...

"Police blotter" is a weekly News.com report on the intersection of technology and the law. What: Pennsylvania man appealed his conviction for knowingly possessing downloaded child pornography, saying ...