A financial watchdog group is warning people that peer-to-peer application balances, such as Cash App or Zelle, may be vulnerable to thieves. "When it was said and done, I was out thousands of dollars ...

The Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) is a near realtime instant messaging protocol, and is used in instant messaging like Jabber. XMPP is extremely flexible and extensible protocol.

Holochain represents a paradigm shift in the realm of decentralized applications. Unlike traditional blockchain-based systems, Holochain focuses on agent-centric design principles, empowering ...

Sun Microsystems Inc. is spearheading an open-source initiative to develop peer-to-peer protocols, giving a welcome boost to a new technology that promises to harness idle computing power, better ...

Here's a new problem to add to the list of ways in which health data can be left exposed to intruders: A university technology professor has submitted research demonstrating that he could obtain tends ...

Mobile peer-to-peer (P2P) applications allow a team or group to create new levels of ad hoc co-operation and collaboration around a specific, real-time goal. But developing compelling and secure ...

Comcast continues to slow down customers’ connections to some peer-to-peer applications, using hacker-like techniques against its own subscribers, according to a report released by the Electronic ...

Though not all peer-to-peer applications are evil, they are frequently recreational in nature. As such, they tend to generate network traffic that businesses often like to limit, usually by means of ...

The job of a network administrator is a busy and demanding one made only harder when users install unauthorized software, as they’re prone to do. A new company, however, is working to make ...

During its 72nd meeting this week in Dublin, the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) held two birds-of-a-feather (BoF) sessions about bandwidth for peer-to-peer applications. The first was about ...

Installing the latest peer-to-peer application? Then, you'd better be ready for a few hitchhikers. A survey performed by anti-spyware researcher Ben Edelman and others found that three out of the five ...