Industry

Security company scours ‘Dark Web’ for stolen data

Companies are looking for new ways to monitor the brisk trade in stolen information on underground forums

DoCoMo shows ‘touch display’ for computer glasses

The prototype creates a virtual interactive display on a flat surface

Symantec seizes part of massive peer-to-peer botnet ZeroAccess

Researchers freed 500,000 infected computers from operators of the ZeroAccess botnet

Obamacare could help fuel a tech start-up boom

Guaranteed health coverage may encourage people to launch their own business or work solo

After getting star billing, Oracle’s Fusion Applications take a supporting role

Some 85 percent of the 650 Fusion Applications customers so far are going with a cloud deployment

Dead Drops offline P2P file sharing network goes global

More than 1,200 physical locations allow people to share thumb drive files, and their lives, anonymously

Tech firms push for NSA surveillance transparency bills

Google, Facebook, Apple and other companies call on Congress to move quickly on NSA legislation

Through a glass darkly: Microsoft’s new financial reporting format

Analysts worry CIOs and enterprise IT leaders will struggle discerning the sales performance of specific products

How IT Can Produce Better Patient Care

Brute-force malware targets email and FTP servers

Researchers find Fort Disco malware variants launching brute force password guessing attacks against POP3 and FTP servers