Hadoop World will be held 15-17 Oct in NYC. This post provides insights into the best technologies set to demonstrate there. CTOvision has attended Hadoop World since the beginning. Attending has helped us better track tech trends and assess the potential business impacts of some of the greatest t...
“Cyber attacks pose a greater risk to Canada’s economy than the government previously believed, and the country lacks the tools to fight hackers, officials warn in internal documents obtained by Bloomberg News.” (Source: Risk to Canadian economy seen from hacker attacks.) Original ...
The U.S. is invoking Cold War-era national-security powers to force telecommunication companies including AT&T Inc. and Verizon Communications Inc. (VZ) to divulge confidential information about their networks in a hunt for Chinese cyber-spying. In a survey distributed this year, the U.S. Comm...
Computer hackers, possibly from the Chinese military, interfered with two U.S. government satellites four times in 2007 and 2008 through a ground station in Norway, according to a congressional commission. The intrusions on the satellites, used for earth climate and terrain observation, underscore ...
A Phoenix man alleged to be a member of the LulzSec hacking group was arrested by the FBI on charges he broke into Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc.’s computer systems in May and June. Cody Kretsinger was arrested yesterday, the Federal Bureau of Investigation said in an e-mailed statement. Kre...
via Bloomberg Businessweek Armored trucks, uniformed personnel, and aircraft carrier support could get whacked. The electronics and cybersecurity budgets will grow… Story here....
via Bloomberg Investigators probing the recent ransacking of International Monetary Fund computers have concluded the attack was carried out by cyber spies connected to China, according to two people close to the investigation. Computer specialists have spent several weeks piecing together informati...
via VentureBeat FBI director Robert Mueller told Congress today that the bureau intends to ramp up its focus on battling cyber attacks and threats during the next two years, according to Bloomberg. “We will increasingly put emphasis on addressing cyber threats in all of their variations,”...