Newly public FireEye, a Milpitas, Calif., company whose sandboxing technology has been the envy of other security companies, is the fastest growing network company on this year's Deloitte Fast 500 list.
Bob Brown |
19 Nov |
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If you can't tell the difference between an inkblot that looks more like "body builder lady with mustache and goofy in the center" than "large steroid insect with big eyes," then you can't crack passwords protected via a new scheme created by computer scientists that they've dubbed GOTCHA.
Bob Brown |
07 Nov |
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If Microsoft's chief security adviser had his way, it would be a felony to misuse personal data.
Bob Brown |
10 Oct |
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Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and Army Research Laboratory will join forces with those from a handful of universities in an effort to better automate cybersecurity decisions. The five-year project has attracted $23.2 million in funding from CMU's CyLab, and could be extended to $48.2 million over 10 years.
Bob Brown |
09 Oct |
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Tech startups focused in hot areas such as virtualization, mobility and security have pulled in tens of millions of dollars over the past week or so from venture capitalists looking to back the next big thing.
Bob Brown |
10 Sep |
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The next best thing to being on the Apple campus in Silicon Valley for its product announcement extravaganza Tuesday is following along with live blogs of the action.
Bob Brown |
10 Sep |
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The National Cyber Security Hall of Fame has announced five security pioneers will be inducted next month for their work on such fronts as intrusion detection and trusted computing.
Bob Brown |
10 Sep |
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A new mockumentary posted on YouTube and backed by a group of net neutrality advocates makes the case that the FCC is right and Verizon is wrong in a fight that today goes to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
Bob Brown |
09 Sep |
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The annual MIT-hosted conference devoted to the Kerberos network authentication protocol now has a broader mission.
Bob Brown |
08 Aug |
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FireEye could soon be known on the stock market as FEYE if its plans to go public in a $175 million bid made official with the SEC today come to fruition.
Bob Brown |
05 Aug |
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The lead author of a controversial research paper about flaws in luxury car lock systems will deliver a presentation at this month's USENIX Security Symposium even though a court ruling has forced the paper to be pulled from the event's proceedings.
Bob Brown |
02 Aug |
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Georgia Tech researchers have developed a proof-of-concept attack called Jekyll that involves using Trojan Horse-style apps to sneak malware past Apple's app review process and onto iOS devices such as the iPhone and iPad.
Bob Brown |
31 Jul |
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A new visual data program called Immersion from the MIT Media Lab invites users to hand over their Gmail address and password in exchange for seeing how they really use the Google messaging system.
Bob Brown |
03 Jul |
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Southwest Airlines says its computer systems are back in working order after a major glitch Friday night forced the company to ground more than 60 flights between Friday night and Saturday morning.
Bob Brown |
22 Jun |
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Google CEO Larry Page strongly denied on Friday that Google allowed the U.S. government back door access to its data centers via a controversial snooping program revealed this week called PRISM.
Bob Brown |
07 Jun |
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