Minecraft, created by Markus "Notch" Persson long before it became the most successful game of all time and a $2bn payday to Microsoft, was written in Java. Notch obfuscated the code to prevent others ...

The International Obfuscated C Contest – the contest to create the most useful, useless, or unique program in absolutely unreadable C code – has just posted the winners of the 2013 contest. Of the ...

Over 25% of malicious JavaScript code is obfuscated by so-called 'packers', a software packaging method that has given attackers a way of evading signature-based detection, according to security and ...

The creators behind the long-running Internet contest to write bizarre and unnecessarily complex C programming code, called the International Obfuscated C Code Contest (IOCCC), have resurrected their ...

The ban will enter into effect on June 10, at which point Mozilla plans to remove all Firefox extensions that don't meet this criteria and shoot down any future extension submissions that fail to ...

Google has banned obfuscated code for Chrome Web Store extensions to reduce policy violations in a move likely to affect cryptojackers. Google’s new restrictions on Chrome Web Store extensions ...

Google has announced several rules aimed at making Chrome extensions safer and more trustworthy. Many extensions request blanket access to your browsing data, but you'll soon have the option to ...