Security

Future cyber attacks could rival 9-11, cripple US, warns Panetta

The Secretary of Defense laid out why the military should be involved in defending critical infrastructure

US senator: Use of location data not well-disclosed

A GAO report says that mobile carriers and app developers provide inconsistent and unclear information about their use of location data

New NASA robot could help paraplegics walk

NASA, Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition look at space, health uses for X1 robot

New security threat at work: Bring-your-own-network

Education and contracts with employees can help curb security risks

Facebook, Gmail, Skype conversations monitored and decoded by German police

The German police have been paying a company to monitor social media, the government reveals

MIT’s newest research center to focus on mobile technologies

Wireless@MIT aims to take the lead in next-generation wireless networks and mobile computing

5 Things You Need to Know About Risk Management

Islamic hacktivists target three more U.S. banks

SunTrust Banks and Capital One Financial have experienced intermittent disruption of their websites this week

Microsoft move hints at the death of Windows service packs

Issues Windows 8 update after RTM, before launch, emulates Apple and Google

Presidential candidates quiet on cyber policy

Obama and Romney differences aired by analysts, not so much by one another