You might remember the scene in Moneyball in which A’s GM Billy Beane confronted a group of old-fashioned baseball scouts who would stubbornly evaluate players based solely on the “eye test,” rather than actually number-crunching their statistical data. Nowadays, ball clubs regularly leverage sabermetric data and use their own in-house systems to predict prospects’ success,…
Unsecure Internet of Things (IoT) devices and the increasing use of automation are leading to vulnerable robotic device, robots if you will, that if compromised by a hacker could inflict physical harm to human not to mention opening the device possibly compromising all types of personal information. While Terminators, droids and fantasy western resort hosts…
After Sept. 11, New York City’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority came up with a tagline intended to make citizens aware that each person is on the front line when it comes to defending the metropolis against another terror attack.
One might think that a net increase of 13,000 information technology jobs in February is a sign of healthy growth in the field, but a comparison to previous employment numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) paints a more complex picture.
While industry-specific efforts to create some type of cybersecurity framework is helpful, stronger guidelines will be needed, reports Doug Olenick.
Though they operate behind the scenes, Stingrays have been in the spotlight for quite some time as their use and capabilities expand and concern that they may trample privacy conventions becomes widespread. Despite growing unease among lawmakers and privacy advocates, though, lawmakers have yet to pass federal legislation to regulate use of the device on…
What issues should companies be considering when it comes to handing over privileged information? Karen Epper Hoffman investigates.
In a world of ever-increasingly complex technologies, some experts advocate a move to simplify. Greg Masters reports. No one said it was going to be easy, but the task of locking down enterprise networks seems to be getting more and more complex as attackers devise ever more sophisticated ways of penetrating defenses. A firewall once…
When Microsoft temporarily doubled its maximum bug bounty prize to $30,000 earlier this month, it was hard to not to notice the timing. After all, the software giant had just been burned twice by Google Project Zero researchers who publicly disclosed Windows vulnerabilities before they could be patched. This was not the first time Google…
