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Third parties leave your network open to attacks
With the Target example as the high-water mark, enterprises need to worry about the lack of security on a third parties’ part. How do you tighten things up?
Top tips for finding the right cybersecurity products
Having trouble finding the right security products for your business? You’re not the only one. We asked experienced buyers for their tips.
25 geek-inspired gifts for Mother's Day
Mother's Day gift ideas with a hint of tech, science and math
Boring old enterprise vendors pay interns well
Snagging an internship at Amazon, Apple, Facebook or Google is certainly reason for celebration, but interns can also fare pretty darn well at enterprise-oriented vendors such as Juniper Networks, VMware and Salesforce.com.
Microsoft Research boss headed back to academia
Columbia University has announced that Jeannette Wing, who has led Microsoft Research since the start of 2013, will be circling back to the world of academia in July as director of Columbia’s Data Science Institute and professor of...
SD-WANs: Too complicated for engineers?
When selecting a SD-WAN technology provider, make sure the partner doing the configuration and installation is experienced.
Social media breaks more common among teens than you might think
I did wonder whether my youngest teenage son would return from a recent week-long service trip on which electronic devices were banned quivering from some sort of social media withdrawal, but he survived just fine and the salmon in...
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April 2017: The month in hacks and breaches
Hacked emergency alarms, DDoS attack down under, extortion, and garden variety data losses and privacy breaches mark the month of April.
Making sense of cybersecurity qualifications
Organizations push for equitable and transparent credentials. Several credentialing initiatives are in the works to make cybersecurity credentials easier to understand and classify according to their value.
Why AI careers can start with a degree in linguistics
If you are looking to land a career in the artificial intelligence field, studying linguistics is a great place to start.
Infosys to hire 10,000 in the US as Trump focuses on local hires
Indian outsourcer Infosys is hiring 10,000 American workers over the next two years, in the wake of a review of U.S. visa rules and an emphasis on local hires by the administration of President Donald Trump.
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Is IT having an identity crisis?
The perception of IT's value and its status within an organization are in constant flux. Here's how to stay relevant.
SMBs continue to be a target of cybercriminals
Believing that their security program is good enough means there's a good chance they’ll be breached. Here are some lessons from the bigs guys for the SMBs.
Human weakness enabling financial cybercrime
Cybercrime costs $3 trillion worldwide. One reason, a Boston police detective told a Boston banking audience, is because they make it too easy.
MIT's WiGait uses wireless signals to step up detection of health issues
Professor Dina Katabi's endlessly inventive team at MIT's CSAIL outfit has now come up with what it says is an unobtrusive way to wirelessly detect possible health issues via changes in walking speed.
Class of 2017 may be in for a rude awakening
New research shows a major disconnect between what recruiters and hiring managers expect from entry-level IT talent and the skills and experience new grads actually have.
Strategy first: How to do mobile dev right
Build platforms, back-end services, native vs. web—to launch the right mobile development strategy, you must make sense of several moving parts
Believe your employer doesn’t know about your legal problems? Think again
Companies hire a third party to scour public databases to make sure employees are not getting into legal trouble that would impact their jobs. But is it ethical? Experts explain.
Career Watch: Be wary of IT employment contracts
An attorney warns about the gotchas in employment contracts; security jobs go begging; master's degrees in computer science pay off.
Athena Lecturer Award for women researchers goes to Rice prof who really gets robots moving
Lydia Kavraki, a professor of computer science and bioengineering at Rice University, has been named as the 2017-2018 Athena Lecturer by the Association for Computing Machinery in recognition her work in robotics.
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