By Ellen Messmer, Network World | August 8th, 2014 Anticipated new EU regulation may mean you do, notes consultancy PricewaterhouseCoopers. New data-privacy regulation for the… Read More »Does your business need a “Data Protection Officer?”
By Jaikumar Vijayan, Computerworld | August 8th, 2014 Growing use of outsourcing companies by merchants drives need for stronger controls. The Payment Card Industry Security… Read More »PCI Security Council moves to boost service providers’ credit card security
By Sharon Gaudin, Computerworld | August 8th, 2014 These origami robots can fold up and walk away. It would be strange enough to see a… Read More »Scientists create self-assembling, working robots
By Kenneth Corbin, CIO | August 8th, 2014 Bringing new devices online at home and in the enterprise raises a host of security concerns that… Read More »The Internet of Things Brings Far-Reaching Security Threats
By Antone Gonsalves, CSO | August 7th, 2014 A group of innovative hackers used free services from Google and an Internet infrastructure company to disguise… Read More »How hackers used Google in stealing corporate data
By Sharon Gaudin, Computerworld | August 7th, 2014 Cybersecurity startup PrivateCore’s tech can help prevent hackers — or anyone — from accessing Facebook user data.… Read More »Facebook moves to protect user data with PrivateCore buy
sFlow is an open protocol, newly supported in Cumulus Linux 2.2, that enables a collector to determine what is going on in a complex network.… Read More »New Feature in Cumulus Linux 2.2: sFlow
By Joab Jackson, IDG News Service | August 7th, 2014 The IBM TrueNorth brain-inspired prototype processor offers the equivalent of 256 million synapses. IBM has… Read More »IBM’s new brain chip could power the Internet of things
By Tim Greene, Network World | August 7th, 2014 Dan Greer has other suggestions to improve cyber security that will make software vendors ‘yell bloody… Read More »Black Hat keynote: U.S. should buy up zero day attacks for 10 times going rate
By Mark Hachman, PC World | August 7th, 2014 Intel will reveal new chips at the IFA conference next month, the company said. Intel said… Read More »Intel preps for its Broadwell launch, but businesses aren’t waiting for the new CPUs
By Matt Hamblen, Computerworld | August 7th, 2014 802.22 standard, approved in 2011, promises low-cost broadband for remote areas. Google, Microsoft and Facebook are cranking… Read More »Big tech firms back Wi-FAR for remote broadband
By Stephen Lawson, IDG News Service | August 6th, 2014 Applications should work more closely with storage, even turning over some CPU work, Samsung says.… Read More »SSD controllers may run your applications someday
By Martyn Williams, IDG News Service | August 6th, 2014 There’s still much that’s unclear about Tuesday’s revelation that a small group of hackers in… Read More »Five unanswered questions about massive Russian hacker database
By Martyn Williams, IDG News Service | August 6th, 2014 Many questions remain after a security company said it had uncovered a huge database of… Read More »Massive Russian hack has researchers scratching their heads
By Grant Hatchimonji, CSO | August 6th, 2014 “The situation we’re in with advertising is a lot like where the banks are, where everyone has… Read More »Black Hat USA 2014: Talking botnets and ad campaigns
By Gregg Keizer, Computerworld | August 6th, 2014 An update to IE 8 through IE 11 next week will introduce a new warning when users… Read More »IE plays security catch-up, will block outdated Java plug-ins
By Agam Shah, IDG News Service | August 6th, 2014 The company is targeting 100-petaflop supercomputers with the SPARC64 XIfx chip. The world’s fastest computer… Read More »Fujitsu guns for faster supercomputers with new chip
As of today, there are only about 2 million websites that support HTTPS. That’s a shamefully low number. Two things are about to happen that… Read More »Google Now Factoring HTTPS Support Into Ranking; CloudFlare On Track to Make it Free and Easy
By Brad Chacos, PC World | August 6th, 2014 CryptoLocker is a nasty bit of ransomware that encrypts all your files unless you pay, but… Read More »CryptoLocker decrypted: Researchers reveal website that frees your files from ransomware
By Agam Shah, IDG News Service | August 6th, 2014 AMD says the FirePro S9150 is faster than Nvidia’s fastest Tesla processor. Advanced Micro Devices… Read More »AMD claims supercomputing GPU performance crown with FirePro S9150