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Obama aims to avoid a ‘cycle of escalation’ in cyberattacks by countries

The US is working towards norms of behavior for countries in cyberspace

Sep 6, 2016 3 mins

OpenOffice coders debate retiring the project

The Apache Software Foundation has asked the OpenOffice team to explain how it will deal with security problems in its code

Sep 5, 2016 2 mins

Open Source Security Software Development

Sophos false positive detection ruins weekend for some Windows users

Sophos antivirus products detected winlogon.exe as malicious

Sep 5, 2016 2 mins

Small and Medium Business System Management Windows

Suspect arrested in 5-year-old kernel.org breach

A computer programmer is accused of compromising several Linux Foundation servers in 2011

Sep 2, 2016 3 mins

Operating Systems Security Servers

Incident response in the age of cloud

Having an incident response platform can help internal and external teams collaborate, track incident response processes and automate key security tasks

Sep 2, 2016 5 mins

Cloud Computing Cloud Security

Apple quashes 3 zero-days with emergency Mac update

Bugs that turn iPhones into iSpies can be weaponized and used against Macs as well

Sep 2, 2016 2 mins

Apple Mac iOS

U.S. cloud vendors adjust to Snowden effect, Privacy Shield

AWS, Microsoft and Google are building data centers in Europe to address privacy concerns in a post-Snowden world. Cloud infrastructure revenue is rising, but how much better could be for U.S. vendors?

Sep 2, 2016 4 mins

Amazon.com Avaya Technology Industry

Your strategy for dealing with web bots has to take into account business context

Simply blocking all bot visits can end up hurting your business

Sep 2, 2016 7 mins

Internet Security

Iris scans as ID grow in use

Smartphones, ATMs and autos envisioned as prime candidates for iris scan tech as ID verification

Sep 1, 2016 6 mins

Mobile Small and Medium Business Smartphones

Regular password changes make things worse

Conventional wisdom says that regularly changing passwords improves security. But a number of studies, plus the FTC’s chief technologist, say human weakness makes conventional wisdom wrong

Sep 1, 2016 7 mins

Security