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 ...

(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 ...

A newly discovered attack forces Web cache servers to deliver malicious content to website visitors – and also exposes a major security hole in Mozilla's Firefox browser infrastructure. James Kettle, ...

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 ...

"Web cache" refers to any technology that fronts an origin web server and temporarily stores frequently accessed content so that subsequent requests for the same content can be served efficiently. Be ...

SIEVE is a new approach to web caching that's simpler and more effective than today's state-of-the-art algorithms, its creators claim — and big tech companies are taking notice. When you purchase ...

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 ...

Caching servers commonly deployed with big-name services will often cache the incorrect page content, including personal details, when the user accesses a non-existent resource, such as CSS or ...

"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 ...