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| The FBI has arrested a U.S. government contractor for allegedly stealing classified documents, which may involve hacking tools from the National Security Agency. Read More ▶ |
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| How do you disrupt an election? Hacking a voter registration database could very well do just that. Read More ▶ |
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| The question on the mind of many U.S. voting security experts is not whether hackers could disrupt a U.S. election. Instead, they wonder how likely an election hack might be and how it might happen Read More ▶ |
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| It's been nearly two years since President Obama created the U.S. chief data scientist role, and the man currently in the job had an urgent message Thursday for attendees at Strata+Hadoop World: We need you. Read More ▶ |
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| What Yahoo was looking for with its alleged email scanning program may have been signs of code used by a foreign terrorist group. Read More ▶ |
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| Hacker Guccifer 2.0 now claims to have hacked the Clinton Foundation, but the documents posted show Democratic campaign data from organizations already compromised. Read More ▶ |
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| The debate about security vs. privacy has been going on since governments existed. It got a lot of discussion this week at the Cambridge Cyber Summit, but it remains unresolved. Read More ▶ |
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| European Union privacy watchdogs are concerned by reports that Yahoo has been secretly scanning its users' email at the request of U.S. intelligence services. Read More ▶ |
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| The U.S. Federal Communications Commission will push forward with controversial privacy regulations that would require broadband providers to get customer permission before using and sharing geolocation, browsing histories, and other personal information. Read More ▶ |
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| What projects are CIOs prioritizing in the year ahead? Where are they spending those precious IT dollars? These are the questions that will be answered (with your help!) in our 16th annual State of the CIO survey. Make your voice heard! ▶ |
| Historically, hardware upgrades on Windows PCs that involved major changes (new motherboard and/or CPU, for example) required a phone call to Microsoft to reactivate the Windows license. Microsoft has altered its licensing policy to cut down on calls. Here’s what happened when we tested this hypothesis. ▶ |
| Cloud-based ERP will eventually rule, and on-premises software is destined for legacy status. How can IT ensure a smooth transition? ▶ |
