It's the holy grail of malware: A truly cross-platform bot that can run on any system. Well, almost any. Kaspersky Lab has come across a functioning bot written entirely in Java, and which works on ...

Two years ago at its Build developer conference, Microsoft made a big push for its bot development tools and the idea of "conversation as a service." Since then, things have gone a bit quiet. But it ...

Pity today's cybercriminal. Sure, attackers can get by focusing on Windows -- but with the increasing market share of Mac OS X and the proliferation of smartphones, one operating system platform just ...