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Why CISO is the hardest tech role to fill

CISOs are hard to hire because there are far too few business executives with the right mix of business and technical chops. Also, companies aren’t exactly sure how much they’re willing to pay a CISO.

May 20, 2016 5 mins

Careers IT Leadership Technology Industry

LightCyber’s attack detection platform distills alerts and generates actionable information

A recent survey says organizations receive 17,000 malware alerts a week—too many to actually deal with. LightCyber boils that down to a dozen meaningful alerts

May 20, 2016 6 mins

Security

DARPA extreme DDOS project transforming network attack mitigation

DARPA has since September awarded seven XD3 multi-million contracts to Georgia Tech, George Mason University, Invincea Labs, Raytheon BBN, Vencore Labs and this week to the University of Pennsylvania

May 20, 2016 3 mins

Enterprise Applications Network Security Small and Medium Business

Criminal defendants demand to see FBI’s secret hacking tool

Courts are facing a decision: Expose the FBi's techniques or allow defendants to see the evidence against them

May 20, 2016 4 mins

Security

Android apps run securely on Chrome OS in Linux containers

Chrome OS takes advantage of work by cloud containers to give Chromebooks Android-app compatibility

May 20, 2016 3 mins

Android Computers and Peripherals Google

Worm infects unpatched Ubiquiti wireless devices

The vulnerability has been known for almost a year, but many users haven't applied the patches

May 20, 2016 3 mins

Networking Security Wi-Fi

Cisco patches high severity flaws in its Web Security Appliance

The flaws can be exploited with specifically crafted HTTP requests to cause denial-of-service conditions

May 19, 2016 2 mins

Network Security Networking Security

Got privacy? If you use Twitter or a smartphone, maybe not so much

You're probably giving away more than you think

May 18, 2016 4 mins

Small and Medium Business Smartphones Social Networking Apps

Twitter location data reveals users’ homes, workplaces

Thanks to geolocation stamps, low-tech snoops can easily figure out where a Twitter poster lives and works

May 18, 2016 3 mins

Big Data Security Twitter

The Martian author Andy Weir calls for massive new space station to prep humans for Mars trip

House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology hears plans for Mars habitation

May 18, 2016 4 mins

Government Mobile Small and Medium Business