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Mozilla Persona login system to shut down end November

The little-known Mozilla project is being shut because of low user interest

Jan 12, 2016 2 mins

Internet Security

Should the US change metal coins?

Changing metals in pennies, nickels and dimes could save treasury between $8 million and $39 million per year

Jan 11, 2016 5 mins

Data Center Security

CES 2016 takeaways: IoT could be the death of your security

The explosion of the Internet of Things, as seen at CES 2016 in Las Vegas last week, and its implications on the cloud and cybersecurity.

Jan 11, 2016 4 mins

Internet of Things Security

How Forbes inadvertently proved the anti-malware value of ad blockers

A security researcher found malicious ads on Forbes after following the site's policy that insists readers disable ad-blocking software.

Jan 11, 2016 2 mins

Why Syncsort introduced the mainframe to Hadoop

In an interview with IDGE, Josh Rogers and Lonne Jaffe of Syncsort explain how they plan to transform big iron and traditional data warehouse/analytics

Jan 11, 2016 32 mins

Big Data Servers Technology Industry

Your license plate: Window to your life

Automated License Plate Readers, which collect not just numbers and letters but the location and time of the scan, are both a privacy and security concern. While they are supposed to be confidential, accessible only to law enforcement, recent reports

Jan 11, 2016 7 mins

Cybercrime Security

Malware alone didn’t cause Ukraine power station outage

The attackers manually intervened to open breakers that caused power outages

Jan 10, 2016 3 mins

Juniper will repatch its Netscreen operating system

Says there’s nothing wrong with the current patch, but redoing it will make ScreenOS more robust

Jan 9, 2016 4 mins

Network Security Networking

Piper nv: An ambitious home monitoring and automation system

Wi-Fi and Z-Wave enabled, 180 degree zoomable video, with audio, night vision and environmental sensing

Jan 9, 2016 5 mins

Computers and Peripherals Security

Cisco disrupts another exploit kit

After $60M Angler block, Talos security arm snags Russian RIG spambot hosts

Jan 8, 2016 2 mins

Cisco Systems Network Security Security