Recruiting and retaining important IT staff -- particularly in the burgeoning security arena -- is a challenge for every organization and one that is only going to tougher.
After this month's now disputed cyber-attack on an Illinois water authority site, you can't blame the utility industry for being a bit under stress.Perhaps such stress relief was what one water department employee had in mind when he allegedly set up a moonshine operation using the Groton, Mass., water...
Looking to capture that manly desire to aim and shoot at something, a British company has come up with a gaming system that well, lets men using a urinal actually aim at something and score points for peeing. Well sort of.
In its second annual Cyber Monday bust-fest, US law enforcement today said it seized 150 domain names from commercial websites it said engaged in the sale and distribution of counterfeit goods and copyrighted works.The 150 seized domains are now custody of the federal government and site visitors will...
For every 1,000 lines of code, one to five bugs are introduced. And getting those bugs out of the millions of lines of software code that run today's complex systems is costly and only performed by highly specialized researchers with deep knowledge of software and mathematical theorem-proving techniques.
Most often when the watchdogs at the Government Accountability Office are called into to check out an agency, process or project they are looking for something that has gone wrong. This week, however the group took a look at some government IT projects that have gone right and came up with some...
The Federal Trade Commission has set the lineup for its workshop next month that will examine the privacy and security impact of facial recognition technology.
These aren't your basic video gaming systems here. The US government gave Raytheon BBN Technologies a $10.5 million today to develop what it called "serious games" that result in better decision-making by teaching players to recognize and diminish the effects of their own biases when analyzing...
Mars gets most of the attention when it comes to research looking for signs of life, but that could change now. NASA today said has found what looks like a pretty good size body of water equal in volume to the Great Lakes unde
A saxophone apparently autographed by former president Bill Clinton is one of the highlights of a massive collectables auction being held by the US Marshals Service starting Friday.
Getting a series of small satellites to communicate and act as one unit in space while taking commands from Earth-bound command centers is a gargantuan wireless task. But the researchers at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) are looking for technology that does just that.
It's clear by the increasing use of analytics software that companies are struggling to get their hands around the huge amounts of data it takes to run a successful business. But developing social, mobile, cloud computing and other applications are also driving the need for new technical...
As perhaps expected, the Japanese supercomputer ranked #1 on the Top 500 fastest supercomputers defended its title and today was listed again the world's fastest machine, this time hitting 10 quadrillion calculations per second (10.51 petaflops). The TOP500 list was previously announced in June...
Researchers from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency will next week detail a new program it hopes will develop technology to dramatically change computer system security authorization.
Almost seven of 10 households in the United States subscribe to broadband service while 68% of American households used broadband Internet in 2010, up from 64% in 2009 and only 3% of households still rely on dial-up access to the Internet in 2010, down from 5 percent in 2009.Those were but a few of the...
US law enforcement today said it had smashed what it called a massive, sophisticated Internet fraud scheme that injected malware in more than four million computers in over 100 countries while generating $14 million in illegitimate income. Of the computers infected with malware, at least 500,000...
WASHGINTON, DC -- Getting non-traditional security technology quickly into military networks was at best a trying experience. Not only that, if you or your company had a novel security tools the last place you may have wanted to show it off would have been to the government.
If you needed any more evidence the mobile world is just exploding look no further than an IBM study out this week that says during this year's holiday season an unprecedented 15% of people in the US logging onto a retailer's Web site are expected to do so through a mobile device.
The Japanese supercomputer ranked #1 on the Top 500 fastest supercomputers broke its own record this week by hitting 10 quadrillion calculations per second (10.51 petaflops), according to its operators, Fujitsu and Riken.
IBM said today that is rolling out a solar-power array system designed to run high-voltage data centers.IBM has installed the first iteration of the system on the 6,000 square-feet of rooftop of its India Software Lab in Bangalore. The solar array is capable of providing a 50-kilowatt supply of electricity...
NASA issued a study today that said if life ever existed on Mars, the longest lasting environments were most likely below the planet's surface.The hypothesis comes from analyzing tons of mineral data gathered over the years from more than 350 sites on Mars gathered by NASA and European Space Agency Mars...
Tractor beams -- the ability to trap and move objects using laser light – have generally been the purview of Star Trek and other science fiction shows but NASA has real-life space plans for the far-out technology.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is embarking on a tour of three major universities that will take him to Harvard on Nov. 7, the school where he created the famous web site then dropped out of and moved the operation to Silicon Valley in 2004.
