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What U.S. cities are most prone to malware infections, and why?

Trying to figure out what makes some cities more prone to malware infection than others.

Jan 26, 2016 4 mins

Cybercrime Security

Security startup wages continuous war games against networks

SafeBreach seeks to quantify the risk of being victimized by Hacker’s Playbook of real-world attack scenarios

Jan 26, 2016 3 mins

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Startup Cybric aims to reduce time between detecting and remediating breaches

By screening clone images of networks, FabricVUE can deliver results in near real time without affecting production networks

Jan 26, 2016 3 mins

Security

Say hello to The Matrix: DARPA looks to link brains and computers

DARPA: Today’s best brain-computer interface systems are like two supercomputers trying to talk to each other using an old 300-baud modem

Jan 26, 2016 4 mins

Careers Data Center Security

Let us look at the code running our devices, says Federal Trade Commissioner

U.S. Federal Trade Commissioner Terrell Sweeny thinks consumers should be allowed to inspect the code running on their connected devices

Jan 26, 2016 4 mins

Consumer Electronics Internet of Things Security

U.S. Congress to federal agencies: You have two weeks to tally your backdoored Juniper kit

The House of Representatives wants to gauge the impact of the recent Juniper ScreenOS backdoors on government departments and agencies

Jan 26, 2016 3 mins

Networking Security

Symantec partner caught running tech support scam

Brazen scheme charged consumers five times the list price for Norton security software; Symantec has terminated the partnership

Jan 26, 2016 3 mins

Cybercrime Microsoft Security

8 tips for recruiting cybersecurity talent

Finding cybersecurity talent isn't easy, but it's even harder if you use the same methods that work for other IT talent specialties. Here's how to get it right.

Jan 26, 2016 6 mins

Careers IT Leadership Security

Broad use of cloud services leaves enterprise data vulnerable to theft, report says

Workers excessively sharing documents in the cloud is a security problem. IT needs to get more on top of it, a new report says.

Jan 25, 2016 3 mins

Cloud Storage Security

Ta-ta to passwords and PINs; faces and fingerprints to rule the future

Iris-reading technology is also seeing wider adoption

Jan 25, 2016 4 mins

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