GCHQ, the UK's communications centre, has launched an online challenge for hopeful cyber spies to solve a series of complex codes across the web with the aim of securing a job with the agency.
Derek du Preez | 11 Sep | Read more
Businesses are only now discovering problems education has coped with for years
John P. Mello Jr. | 30 Aug | Read more
Are confidential corporate documents finding their way onto employees' personal phones, laptops and tablets? You bet. Even worse, the next-generation workforce doesn't care.
Tom Kaneshige | 29 Aug | Read more
PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) has hired the former head of the central e-crime unit at the Metropolitan police as its senior crime adviser.
Derek du Preez | 23 Aug | Read more
Whether you describe Edward Snowden as a hero or a criminal, theres no denying the impact that this self-described computer wizard is having on IT leaders. After all, if even the NSA can fall victim to a tech-savvy millennial, how can they defend their data?
Tom Kaneshige | 21 Aug | Read more
BlackBerry 10 smartphone sales have been disappointing, and this month the company announced that it's essentially up for sale. Bad news aside, five key industry trends suggest that BlackBerry's purported advantages no longer matter.
John Brandon | 27 Aug | Read more
Microsoft's Surface RT tablets have been in trouble almost since they became available last year, but it looks like the company is going to hang with them at least through the next version.
Tim Greene | 12 Aug | Read more
Experts in cybersecurity are among the most sought-after professionals in the tech sector, with demand for workers in that field outpacing other IT jobs by a wide margin.
Kenneth Corbin | 08 Aug | Read more
Ease-of-use in the Moto X, such as always-ready microphone for voice actions, likely to tickle consumers -- but haunts security pros
Antone Gonsalves | 02 Aug | Read more
The large majority of people working in IT procurement are "significantly dissatisfied" with the way SaaS (software as a service) vendors define contract language related to security, a feeling likely to persist through 2015, according to a Gartner report.
Chris Kanaracus | 01 Aug | Read more
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Bob Violino | 31 Jul | Read more
A survey of IT executives and IT pros paints a disturbing picture of BYOD. That picture includes a lack of confidence in compliance with federally mandated regulations, a fear that sensitive data is at risk and uncertainty about the overall effectiveness of BYOD.
Tom Kaneshige | 30 Jul | Read more
Few would deny the chief security officer role has evolved quite a bit in recent years. At many large companies, the heads of both physical and information security now report in to the same person, an enterprise CSO. The pace of change for the function is accelerating along with the ever-changing nature of threats.
Lauren Gibbons Paul | 23 Jul | Read more
More than three quarters in survey said their organisations had not trained employees to understand the privacy risks of BYOD
John P. Mello | 18 Jul | Read more
Infographic: If you're a CIO (or other IT leader) and you have a BYOD policy in place, you also have some trust issues to overcome: Your users aren't confident their personal data is remaining private.
Tom Kaneshige | 17 Jul | Read more