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Companies should ban Facebook Home, experts say

APT attackers getting more evasive, even more persistent

Should universities offer Cobol classes?

Differing views view from four schools about the need to teach the distinguished IT programming language

The Grill: Chris Curran on ‘The Year of the CIO’

PwC's chief technologist says CIOs ought to be primed to take on dual roles.

Career Watch: A debunker of H-1B claims

Yandex launches public DNS service with malicious URL filtering

The company is working with some hardware vendors to create router firmware with built-in support for the service

Sophos fixes vulnerabilities in its Web security appliance

The flaws could allow attackers to execute commands with high privileges and read sensitive passwords stored on the product

Bitcoin storage service, Instawallet, suffers database attack

Instawallet, which stored a person's bitcoins, said it will refund some lower balances

Online electronics retailer has successful trial with bitcoin-only transactions

Bitcoinstore will run for another three months to demonstrate bitcoin's potential to Amazon.com and NewEgg

One-click-fraud apps go from PC to Android