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The researchers looked into the issue after a 2003 incident in which a colleague's laptop was stolen during a security conference. The hotel staff reportedly had not taken the reported theft seriously, saying there were no signs of forced entry or unauthorized room access Over...

The security skills gap has become a topic of acute interest among practitioners responsible for building security teams for their organizations -- and keeping them running smoothly. It impacts everything from how they staff, how they cultivate and develop their workforces, and how they train, to the operational controls they put in place, and potentially numerous other things about their security programs. ...

With regard to the numerous questions that Zuckerberg promised Facebook's staff would research, Stone said that the official committee records will be held open so that legislators can ask additional questions. The House committee record will be open for an additional 10 days, and the joint Senate committees' record will be open for another 14 days. The committees then will give Facebook time to respond to members' questions...

It's unclear whether Congress will be able to follow through on promises to legislate comprehensive privacy protections, observed Nate Cardozo, senior staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation "We're skeptical of Congress' ability to get meaningful reforms passed," ...

However, on several occasions, he either deflected questions, said he was not personally aware of key decisions, or asked members to let his staff provide further information on several matters following the hearing Mind My Business...

The results of the study, whichThe Manifest released on Tuesday, showed that 46 percent of the 350 small businesses polled used in-house staff to develop critical mobile applications in an effort to drive new business Forty-one percent used freelancers or consultants to deve...

Facebook staffers have met with committee staff, said a source familiar with the talks, but arrangements had not yet been fixed for a live appearance. "Facebook, who reinvented social networking for the ...

I touched on CTS Labs in last week's column, mentioning the screwy report that came from a company staffed with questionable folks. CTS Labs appeared out of nowhere to showcase what it claimed were major security problems with AMD's parts. Since then, we found out that all t...

Arrangements for a staff briefing are underway, according to Frederick Hill, spokesperson for Sen. John Thune, who chairs the Commerce Committee Heavy Fallout...

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CTS Labs is staffed with ex-spies and one ex-spy hedge fund manager. The firm doesn't even appear to have the skills needed (microprocessor engineering) to locate the questionable security exposures that were reported. Apparently, while the security problems were real, their significance was not. The problems paled against the issues reported by more credible firms on Intel's parts back in January. (Intel even faces a class action lawsuit tied to this mess.) ...

The use of the mapping technology also could allow small game studios to do much more with fewer people on staff "The new tools will make it easier for small and mid-size developers to create compelling games that involve real-world locations," said Carter Rogers, senior analy...

Sixty-six percent of the SMB staff who participated in Salesforce research indicated they were personally responsible for at least three areas of their business, noted Marie Rosecrans, SVP for SMB marketing at Salesforce Only 26 percent of their organizations had one or more i...

The Electronic Frontier Foundation last month filed an amicus brief, as did the Brennan Center for Justice, the American Civil Liberties Union, Restore the Fourth, and the R Street Institute, raising major concerns about the impact a ruling against Microsoft would have on data privacy, noted Adam Schwartz, senior staff attorney at EFF.

Small and mid-sized businesses are particularly vulnerable because they "lack the financial and staff resources of their larger counterparts, he told the E-Commerce Times. Also, they "often use basic, out-of-the-box tools that aren't tuned to their specific business and trends, leaving the door open to fraudsters to initiate heavy and quick attacks that go largely unnoticed until it's too late."

The shooting at the school in Florida was devastating, and it appears clear that Russia has been manipulating public opinion in the U.S. to stoke the flames of a divisive argument on guns. What is being missed is a brewing problem that potentially could have an even more devastating impact. ...

A broader examination of GSA's performance in managing telecom modernizations was conducted by GAO's Harris and other agency staff. The 1998 transition resulted in $79 million of lost savings, while the 2007 telecom upgrade was delayed by 33 months with lost savings of $329 m...

HR and internal audit in firms, both in the tech industry and buying from it, need to be staffed up and missioned both to mitigate or eliminate the behavior and to protect the firm's assets. This means that executives, board members and employees who actively have been taking part in abusing women employees and customers need to be identified and terminated for cause.

The Bridge will provide the MIT community with intelligence technologies, platforms and infrastructure; education about AI tools for students, faculty and staff; rich and unique data sets; technical support; and specialized hardware MIT IQ will connect and amplify existing exc...

Burkland: There are a few reasons. One is the most basic: There's all the IT and other required staff needed to serve a large enterprise with multiple data centers, and also the need to keep the software at consistent levels and pay for the upgrades in order to stay current. When you move that same infrastructure to the cloud, there's zero footprint for a data center for the client...