Overlay networks and peer-to-peer (P2P) systems form a cornerstone of modern distributed computing, offering resilient, scalable frameworks for resource sharing and content distribution. By creating a ...

Until last week, the staff of the United States Senate was demonstrating that the people who create our legislation don't think they have to obey it themselves. The Senate, which is now crafting ...

Perhaps one of the more compelling peer-to-peer (P2P) networking technologies to come along is Groove, a P2P networking application from Groove Networks Inc. in Beverly, Mass. Created by Lotus Notes ...

P2P networking allows devices on the same network to share resources and communicate directly with each other, without relying on a central server. While P2P networking can be beneficial for tasks ...

A California company has quietly attached its software to millions of downloads of the popular Kazaa file-trading program and plans to remotely "turn on" people's PCs, welding them into a new network ...

Peer-to-peer computing is more than sharing music files. Indeed, beleaguered Napster is an example of just one area of P2P technology. A P2P network allows PCs to communicate directly with one another ...

In the letters, the FTC warned schools, businesses and local governments that widespread data leaks occurred after their employees swapped music via P2P networks, which exposed copious personal ...

In an illustration of how desperate the entertainment industry is to destroy P2P networks, the RIAA is attempting to smear file trading sites with the charge that they support and encourage the ...

Anomali Labs has found a new kind of malware(they call it IPStorm) that is controlled by peer-to-peer (p2p) communications rather than by a client-server model. The ...

Millions of documents, both government and private, containing sensitive and sometimes classified information are floating about freely on file sharing networks after being inadvertently exposed by ...