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The director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation has conceded it was a mistake to ask San Bernadino County to reset the password of an iCloud account that had been used by gunman Syed Farook.

Application security is arguably the biggest cyber threat, responsible for 90 percent of security incidents, according to the Department of Homeland Security. Yet it suffers from not-my-job syndrome, or, as SANS put it in its 2015 State of Application Security report, "Many information security engineers don’t understand software development — and most software developers don’t understand security."

The inventors of public key cryptography have won the 2015 Turing Award, just as a contentious debate kicks off in Washington over how much protection encryption should really provide.

Four U.S. senators have proposed a bill that would call on the Federal Communications Commission to study the need for more spectrum to connect Internet of Things devices.

What can you fit into a Raspberry Pi board while still keeping the price to $35? That's a question Raspberry Pi CEO Eben Upton wrestled with when planning the third version of the product.

One of the under-the-radar announcements at Amazon Web Service’s re:Invent cloud conference last year was the announcement of Snowball. It’s a box the size of a small suitcase filled with storage drives. Amazon will ship you one, customers can load it up, then send it back to Amazon and upload data 50 terabytes at a time into the cloud. Check out a video of Amazon executives revealing Snowball here.

Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman, whose names have been linked since their seminal paper introduced the concepts of public key encryption and digital signatures some 40 years ago, have been named winners of the 2015 ACM A.M. Turing Award (a.k.a., the "Nobel Prize of Computing").

You have to admit it, Microsoft does produce guys with amazing hops.

I recall back in 1994 when Bill Gates showed off his leaping ability by jumping an office chair for journalist Connie Chung. This YouTube video has scored more than 2 million views...

Now Gates's former sidekick and current Los Angeles Clippers owner Steve Ballmer has gone boing-boing himself, dunking at halftime of an NBA game last night, with a little help from a trampoline.

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Living in a Super Tuesday state as I do, my reaction when I saw this ad online today was, “Hey, that’s smart: Help people find their polling place while reminding them to vote, preferably for Hillary Clinton.”

Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are beginning to show up as a cause of mobile phone outages, according to respondents of a survey.

Cybercriminals and hacktivists face many of the same hiring problems as defending security organizations, but with their own particular twists, according to report released this morning.

Microsoft's browsers took a beating of historical proportions last month, losing user share at a rate that could put it in second place, behind Google, as early as May, new data signaled today.

The greatest cyberthreat might not be a massively destabilizing attack that takes out the electrical grid or some other piece of critical infrastructure. Instead, the most significant risk could come from the accumulated damage of a constant barrage of attacks that shake the collective confidence in the Internet as a platform.

The Federal Trade Commission found few surprises in its annual summary of consumer complaints – offensive debt collection activities, identity theft, and imposter scams were the main offenders in 2015.

SAN DIEGO – Cisco this week is throwing its hat into the hyperconvergence and software-defined storage ring with a system co-developed with software company SpringPath.

Security researchers have discovered a new weakness that could allow attackers to spy on encrypted communications between users and one in three HTTPS servers.

A snippet in time: If you are lucky, then you might have a horse or mule to help you work your homestead. There’s no microwaves, no instant-anything; if you don’t want to starve then you have to kill animals for meat, grow a garden and make bread from scratch. That implies needing firewood by cutting down trees and chopping the wood yourself. Some people have slaves do the hard labor. Your life expectancy is a mere 36 years and you take fighting for freedom and liberty very seriously.

VMware’s President and COO Carl Eschenbach is leaving the company to pursue a career in venture capital, marking a second high-ranking executive to leave VMware in as many weeks for the startup funding world.

Microsoft and Raspberry Pi want people to build businesses and start Kickstarter campaigns around cool devices making use of the new Raspberry Pi 3 computer.

Cisco’s reseller event, Partner Summit, kicked off this week in San Diego. The event is normally a big one for Cisco as thousands of its resellers gather to be updated on the latest, greatest plans for Cisco. All eyes are on Chuck Robbins as this is the first Partner Summit held under his watch as the company’s CEO. The event kicks off today and has already seen Cisco make a couple of significant announcements in the data center.

In 1897 the great American author, Mark Twain was rumored to have stated, “the reports of my death are greatly exaggerated”. In the tech industry, Fibre Channel could make the same statement. It seems that for years, the death of Fibre Channel has been speculated, as Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) or even IP networks would be the death knell for the more traditional storage protocol.

Cisco this week announced its intention to acquire CliQr Technologies, a privately-held developer of “application-defined” cloud orchestration software for $260 million.

A year-long experiment that baited hackers to try and break into systems netted an interesting result: a single letter, x, was one of the most common password guesses.

AMD is shattering a speed record with the A10-7890K processor chip, its fastest yet with integrated graphics. 

Abbott Labs, a global healthcare company, is laying off about 180 IT employees after inking an agreement with Wipro, a major India-based IT services firm, to take over some IT services. The employees were told about the planned cuts on Feb. 22; their last day will be April 22.