By Grant Gross, IDG News Service | August 14th, 2014 The Center for Digital Democracy calls on the FTC to investigate 30 companies. Thirty U.S. data brokers and data management firms, including Adobe Systems, AOL and Salesforce.com, are violating privacy
Guns, vandals and thieves: Data shows US networks under attack
By Martyn Williams, IDG News Service | July 29th, 2014 More than a thousand malicious acts have targeted the US telecoms infrastructure in recent years, FCC data shows. Early one morning in April last year, someone accessed an underground vault
US chases supercomputing crown with multipetaflop Trinity system
By Agam Shah, IDG News Service | July 10th, 2014 The supercomputer will be deployed within the next two years, but would be the world’s fastest if deployed today, Cray claims. Stepping up its efforts to regain supercomputing dominance from
NSA defends collecting data from U.S. residents not suspected of terrorist activities
By Jaikumar Vijayan, Computerworld | July 7th, 2014 Spokeswoman says spy agency has long said some of the data it intercepts belonging to non-suspects. The U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) Monday defended its data collection practices amid revelations that almost