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A South Florida-based computer programmer made an appearance in the Southern District of Florida yesterday after being arrested Sunday on charges of hacking into computers …

Romanian hacker Guccifer, i.e Marcel Lehel Lazar, who unlawfully accessed the private online accounts of at least 100 Americans and caused the public release of this …

The digital revolution is dominating and transforming the work of the US federal government, and those federal agencies that develop a people first approach will stand out in …

After examining general trends and statistics for malware infections in devices connected through mobile and fixed networks, Nokia found a sharp rise in the occurrence of …

Governments and militaries around the world have long recognised that their lines of communications were often their weakest links and required some of the strongest …

Many of today’s automobiles leave the factory with secret passengers: prototype software features that are disabled but that can be unlocked by clever drivers. In what …

Law enforcement is challenged by the need for a balance between equipping officers with gear that will protect them while also trying to manage the appearance of acts of …

L0pht Holdings released a completely revamped L0phtCrack 7, which includes a new cracking engine which takes optimal advantage of multi-core CPUs and multi-core GPUs. A 4-core …

Web scraping is a technique of extracting information from web sites, and often includes transforming unstructured web site data into a database for analysis or repurposing …

Enterprises these days are putting more resources into monitoring and managing business risk. And with good reason – in light of a growing number of vulnerabilities and …

Executives are increasingly adopting a digital business model, with the cloud as the key enabler. However, security concerns and tepid execution complicate the ability of the …

81 percent of Feds say their agency is using big data analytics for cybersecurity in some capacity – 53 percent are using it as a part of their overall cybersecurity strategy …