Spyware refers to computer software, programs, that are installed, usually without the computer users knowledge and gather information about how the computer is being used and the websites the user visits. The simplest and most insidious form of spyware are so-called “cookies” although not all cookies are bad. These tiny pieces of computer code are [...]

Image via Wikipedia US researchers have developed a forensics toolkit for the XBox gaming console that could let law enforcement agencies find any and all hidden materials easily stored on the console’s hard disk. Computer scientist David Collins of Sam Houston State University spends many a happy day messing around with the Microsoft XBox purely [...]