computer code

(Newser) - He was a troubled man but a "virtuoso coder," writes Brendan I. Koerner in a profile of the late Jerrold Haas for Wired . The 44-year-old's skeletal remains were found in the woods of Ohio in 2018, seven weeks after he was reported missing. Haas apparently died while...

(Newser) - A new free system designed to protect Web surfers from dangerous code is taking on the software security giants, reports the Wall Street Journal. Developers say Haute Secure, the brainchild of ex-Microsoft security experts, blocks Web pages embedded with malicious code. The public can download the program free, and companies...