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NIST's cryptographic standards are used by software developers around the world to protect confidential data
Reaction to August brouhaha over Chrome's practice of letting anyone see passwords in plain text
Lawmakers point to reports of a website user having his personal data shared with another user
Those features were already in the company's Android search app
Traffic with this source port might indicate reconnaissance for future attacks, researchers from Cisco said
Indian space agency launches Mangalyaan spacecraft for 10-month information-gathering trip to Mars
The company will collect a 20 percent transaction fee on all paid, non-health services
Healthcare.gov homepage ranks 4th in a performance test, but that's just for the homepage
IBM says its investment in data analysis can pay off for system administrators with the new Predictive Insights product
Rackspace has a new default higher-performing VM, while Amazon releases graphic processing unit-based virtual machines, which are ideal for streaming high-definition content.
F5 is virtualizing its application delivery technology to serve SDN and cloud environments
While the OECD isn't a court and cannot impose sanctions, Privacy International hopes to get answers
Results show consumers plan to shop online, but are less excited about being tracked
The end result is an almost three-fold improvement in overall performance
Acer president Jim Wong will replace Wang as CEO
Data compiled by NASA's Kepler space telescope ushers in a 'new era of astronomy,' experts say
A beta version of the underlying SDK is available for download
Moves step closer to traditional bug bounties by accepting novel techniques found in active attacks that skirt Windows' defenses
The vendor also reaffirms the pending availability of Dynamics AX on the Windows Azure cloud service
The new service matches similar services from competitors like Google, AWS
The researchers have proposed a fix to Bitcoin's algorithm
More service interruptions are likely, officials say
EHarmony and Ancestry.com use Hadoop to extend the range of people they connect
STAP technologies work alongside signature-based anti-malware and intrusion-detection and prevention systems
Bettors see Google Glass showroom, space elevator and self-driving barges are long-shots
The new supercomputer, called Catalyst, has 281TB of SSD storage
System hit was not protected by traditional best practices, used 3DES instead
Factors like participant compensation may taint results, says Ben Rothke
As threats have evolved, more enterprises are struggling with quickly finding malware that has infected their systems
India space agency set to launch Mars-bound spacecraft on Tuesday; NASA says its helping with deep space communications
The Moto G is thought to be low-cost version of the Moto X
A recent bill to stop the NSA's bulk collection of telephone records would hurt its ability to catch terrorists, officials say
Air's share was double that of 2012's iPad Mini + fourth-gen iPad, when Apple sold 3M tablets
Increased executive involvement and higher spending not enough, says study
Users who removed the original malware infection, intentionally or not, are asked to pay five times more to recover their files
The compnay also reveals that IBM has said that Twitter infringes several patents
The company will offer both Itanium- and x86-based Nonstop servers
Okta's cloud identity management platform is way ahead of Salesforce.com, according to CEO Todd McKinnon
They're Internet-facing, unpatched machines with no malware protection. How could that ever happen?
Fairfax and partners will purchase $1 billion in BlackBerry debt; former Sybase chief Chen named interim CEO
