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It’s one thing if a botched software update causes a Nest or Hive “smart” thermostat to either freeze or swelter people in their homes, but what if humans miss one tiny error in the code of killer robots or autonomous weapons? What if enemy nation states hack those killing machines?

A New York prosecutor tomorrow plans to urge Congress to write legislation that would require Apple to roll back iPhone security to the model of 2013's iOS 7, according to prepared testimony published today.

A Lexus SUV being controlled by Google's autonomous vehicle (AV) technology has crashed into the side of a bus, marking what may be the first accident caused by the self-driving technology while it was in full autonomous mode.

Can the Android Wear and Tizen operating systems on smartwatches be challenged? French computer science student Florent Revest believes so.

IBM will acquire Resilient Systems, it announced Monday, and along with the company, it will gain a big name in the security world: Bruce Schneier.

BARCELONA -- At Mobile World Congress, hundreds of companies showed off new smart city technologies, some that are just in the start-up phase while others are being implemented in select cities.

As a security professional, I can attest that the lifeblood of any company is the sensitive data it processes. To be useful, this data needs to be connected to other applications; mashed-up with other data sources; and presented to a wide variety of mobile users, business owners, and API endpoints. Protecting this data is the charter of a company’s Information Security team and the responsibility of all employees who work there. It is this dichotomy of “access with restrictions” that makes data security so hard to master... Читать дальше...

Our industry has to get much more analytical in how we make decisions about the analytic tool sets and techniques we deploy.  

The Privacy Shield agreement is intended to guarantee the personal information of European Union citizens the same privacy protection when processed in the U.S. as it would receive at home. Where these guarantees are not available, the information must stay in the EU.

Microsoft HoloLens is coming, whether you like it or not, and developers can now pre-order it. If you’re in the USA or Canada, and you’re invited by Microsoft, then plonk down a mere three Clevelands for the AR developer kit.

Two former Disney IT workers spoke at a Donald Trump campaign rally on Sunday, telling about the shock of having to train their foreign replacements.

The success of cryptocurrency -- a medium for making and receiving payments over a network using digital bits and encryption -- is inevitable.

A team of security researchers has found serious vulnerabilities in more than a dozen wireless routers and access points from Netgear and D-Link with the help of an open-source framework that can be used to perform dynamic security analysis on embedded firmware.

Our Premier 100 IT Leaders Awards honor individuals who have had a positive impact on their organization through technology. Honored individuals manage internal IT organizations, mentor and motivate their IT teams with interesting challenges, envision innovative solutions to business problems and effectively manage and execute IT strategies. Computerworld's Premier 100 IT Leaders issue, published each year, highlights the accomplishments of the honorees.

The European Commission has detailed the steps businesses must take to comply with the Privacy Shield data protection agreement reached with U.S. authorities earlier this month, and published a draft of the order that will give it force of law.

Our Premier 100 Technology Leaders Awards honor individuals who have had a positive impact on their organization through technology. Honored individuals manage internal IT organizations, mentor and motivate their IT teams with interesting challenges, envision innovative solutions to business problems and effectively manage and execute IT strategies.

So you’ve come across a second hand iPhone at a bargain price, but how can you tell if it’s a stolen device?

Domino's is potentially one of the best masters of contra-marketing. That's where a company's core product/service is pretty bad, and it's widely known among customers/prospects that it's pretty bad, and marketing is charged with somehow turning around to the company's advantage. Somehow, they have done it repeatedly -- often using technology to mask the magic.

Apple last week argued that assisting the FBI in the agency's attempt to access an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino killers would be an undue burden that would require a staff of between six and ten people who would have to dedicate two to four weeks of their time to the task.

Raspberry Pi has a new baby, and it’s fabulous, isn’t it? The Welsh-built Pi 3 has a 64-bit chip, with Wi-Fi, and improved video, yet it works the same as older models, and the Foundation’s kept the price at a mere $35 -- hanghredadwy (as they say in Wales).

Nearly 20 years after its launch, Internet2 is quietly humming along on university campuses across the country, doing its R&D work and connecting researchers who might otherwise not be able to share information so readily.

Class of 2016 Yearbook: The Honorees

Want an inside look at what gets elite IT leaders excited, and what makes them crazy? Here are short profiles of this year’s Premier 100 Technology Leaders, where they answer questions on everything from their boldest predictions about the future of IT to the job responsibility they’d most like to eliminate. Many also discuss their coolest projects, or the initiative that delivered the fastest return on investment.

Anthony Bolton started as CIO of global telecommunications at General Motors in 2012, and soon thereafter he and other IT leaders were tasked with in-sourcing and transforming IT.

According to Chris Hjelm, the common theme across all of his company's recent strategic business initiatives — from digital coupons to online ordering with in-store pickup — is the fact that each is driven by technology innovation.