Security

Manning acquitted of aiding enemy, found guilty on other charges

A military judge aqcuitted Bradley Manning of most serious charge but found him guilty of spilling secrets to WikiLeaks

MIT report says it didn’t seek federal charges against Aaron Swartz

The institute remained neutral on the case, according to a report reviewing its role

CIOs and IT Staff Learn From Unusual Mentoring Program

Universities putting sensitive data at risk via unsecure email

Car hack highlights march toward remote control of critical systems

Shorter, higher-speed DDoS attacks on the rise, Arbor Networks says

Web-application attacks have jumped, too, FireHost reports

Yale grad’s ‘Prism’ program turns text metadata into wavy art

The graphing app allows people to view their text data in a more emotive way, says developer

Got a disaster? FEMA’s got an app with crowdsourcing for that.

FEMA's latest disaster preparedness app includes citizen sourced intelligence gathering.

Is Snowden a Russian citizen? No, it’s just a Google Translate trick

A researcher found a way to manipulate Google Translate, although it isn't through a security vulnerability

Feds say $2.3M in bribes paid to CIO, database chief

Vendors charged rates as high as $115 per hour for services and then shared the money with IT management