Security

The tricky, personal politics of cloud security

A new cybersecurity survey points out the hidden issues and concerns surrounding security in the cloud

Asylum of WikiLeaks’ Assange not in question

The Ecuador embassy in London is said to have cut his internet connection

Breaches, IT skills & innovation keeping CIOs up at night

But IT budget and salary increases, along with excitement of job, making it a great time to be CIO, annual SIM IT Trends Study finds

Air Force gets space telescope that can see space objects like no ground-based system before it

DarkLight removes Li-Fi restriction, allows visible light to transmit data in the dark

Discovery uses light pulses imperceptible to the human eye to provide bandwidth that is 10,000 times greater than radio and more secure

UK spy agencies illegally collected data for years, court rules

The UK's secret intelligence agencies breached European human rights legislation by secretly collecting communications and personal data in bulk

Gartner: Artificial intelligence, algorithms and smart software at the heart of big network changes

Gartner says CIOs will participate in the building of a new digital platform with intelligence at the center

Lawmakers question DOJ’s appeal of Microsoft Irish data case

The question of search warrants for foreign data is better addressed in Congress, they say

Dyre banking Trojan successor rears its ugly head

New online banking Trojan TrickBot is believed to be a reimplementation of Dyre

5 tools for making sense of system logs

Security and systems administrators discuss the best and worst features of log management products such Splunk, ArcSight and LogRhythm.