Security

Olympics could strain enterprise networks

200% increase in mobile traffic expected during the two weeks of the games, experts say

Obama administration supports new cybersecurity bill

The bill, to be debated in the Senate soon, will strengthen the U.S. cybersecurity response, the OMB says

Twitter crashes day before Olympics kick off

Outage comes just a month after a cascading bug shut down Twitter twice in a day

Sprint posts $1.4 billion loss in second quarter

The company's losses include an effort to move Nextel customers to a Sprint network

Study: Microsoft repeatedly ranks as top U.S. spammer

University of Texas project calls attention to problem in effort to reduce spam, improve security

The 5 hottest IT jobs right now

Thousands of companies looking to hire developers with these sought-after tech skills

Microsoft seeks to make sense of what you didn’t say

Researchers work on software that interprets meaning expressed by pauses, pacing, pitch in human speech

Best practices for printer security

Microsoft needs to buy a vowel

Seen on a sign at Black Hat in Las Vegas

Black Hat panel: Which do you trust less with your data, the U.S. government or Google?

Security veterans Jeff Moss, Bruce Schneier, Marcus Ranum and others duke it out