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Ex-Facebook, Dropbox engineers offer debugging as a service

The Honeycomb SaaS platform lets engineers ask ad hoc questions in real time to cut outages and find bugs and performance issues

Nov 3, 2016 2 mins

Security Software Development

How secure are home robots?

Few of us think a vacuum could possibly become anything remotely viable for criminal use

Nov 3, 2016 4 mins

Internet of Things Security

Flood of threat intelligence overwhelming for many firms

The amount of threat information coming in from security systems is overwhelming for many companies

Nov 3, 2016 5 mins

Cybercrime Security

The day the 911 network stood still

The frail, legacy emergency 911 network in the United States was accidentally brought to its proverbial knees recently by a teenager looking for an Apple iOS bug

Nov 3, 2016 5 mins

Mobile Security Small and Medium Business

Microsoft to patch Windows bug that Google revealed

Fix goes out Nov. 8 for vulnerability used by Russian hackers who penetrated the Democratic National Committee

Nov 2, 2016 3 mins

Cybercrime Google Small and Medium Business

ExtraHop package captures files before ransomware encrypts them

Precision Packet Capture grabs files just before they are encrypted

Nov 2, 2016 2 mins

Security

Cisco seeks faster time to discovery for breaches, compromises

Upgrades to Cisco AMP for Endpoints now has a SaaS option

Nov 2, 2016 3 mins

Cisco Systems Security

NASA: Asteroid mission starts with a marriage of rocks, styrofoam and plywood

NASA moves forward with Asteroid Redirect Mission

Nov 2, 2016 4 mins

Government Mobile Small and Medium Business

Do smartphone trade-ins threaten corporate security?

One more mobile security thing to worry about: corporate data on smartphones sold when workers trade in their phones

Nov 2, 2016 3 mins

Mobile Security Small and Medium Business Smartphones

Cisco says it’ll make IoT safe because it owns the network

The company plans to certify IoT products to take advantage of network security capabilities

Nov 2, 2016 3 mins

Internet of Things Networking Security