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Icann hires Black Hat founder

...has hired BlackHat and Def Con founder Jeff Moss to be its chief security officer. The internet address administrator said that Moss, who founded Def... Read more

3 May, 2011

RSA: Nation state double-teamed on SecurID attack

Two groups of hackers working for one nation were behind an attack on RSA's SecurID authentication token data that left defence contractors around the world exposed to cyber-espionage Read more

11 October, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Facebook bug-hunting scheme pays out $40,000

...was paid $5,000 for "one really good report", Joe Sullivan, Facebook chief security officer, wrote in a blog post. "On the other end of... Read more

30 August, 2011 by Elinor Mills

Facebook offers bounties to bug hunters

...it's no longer than a day" to fix a bug, Facebook chief security officer Joe Sullivan told ZDNet UK's sister site CNET News... Read more

1 August, 2011 by Elinor Mills

Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook page falls victim to hacker

...not have access to private data on the Facebook account, Joe Sullivan, chief security officer at Facebook, said in a follow-up interview with ZDNet... Read more

27 January, 2011 by Elinor Mills

Should you hire an ex-hacker?

...time hiring 23-year-old Joe Magee -- a former hacker -- as its chief security officer (CSO). Magee's credentials are impressive. Any technology company, especially... Read more

17 June, 2002 by Bob Weinstein

Sun creates new security posts

...two high-ranking computer security positions, naming one of its top researchers chief security officer and indicating that Sun, too, wants to elevate the importance... Read more

18 April, 2002 by Stephen Shankland

Reader survey: Security is priority for spending

A recent poll suggests that companies are most likely to spend money on security-related software, and that Linux has a role in their future plans Read more

8 June, 2002 by Rachel Konrad

US to force firms to 'fess up on data loss

Customers to be warned... Read more

3 April, 2006 by Dan Ilett

'Wi-fi poses huge legal risk', warns City lawyer

And he should know... Read more

10 February, 2006 by Will Sturgeon

Re:Viewing 2005: The year in security

Small was the new big when it came to security threats... Read more

19 December, 2005 by Will Sturgeon

Security risks overwhelming IT departments

System failures and hacking hitting the balance sheet, says EIU survey Read more

6 October, 2005 by Andy McCue

New security group gets real with the real world

Don't forget your physical assets Read more

15 April, 2003 by Robert Lemos
Keeping a firm hold on Skype security

Keeping a firm hold on Skype security

...application, its defences have been pretty solid, according to the company's chief security officer, Kurt Sauer. That's not to say there is no... Read more

3 January, 2007 by Joris Evers

eBay sends out mixed messages on security

...at odds with comments made earlier this year by Howard Schmidt, the chief security officer for eBay and former White House cybersecurity adviser who called... Read more

4 May, 2005 by Andrew Donoghue

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Paul Smyth

Is this classic FUD? One thing I would definitely have notice is a Mozilla threat to stop supporting GNU/Linux.

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I agree with the previous commenter wholeheartedly. I couldn't say it better myself. This is very 'Big Brother'. And while I agree with protecting...

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Nice to see that Turing's idea of a general purpose computer doing once-hardware-powered tasks in software is now universal ;-) Mary

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openhgs has made the point for Windows 8 multiple monitors without realising it! With Windows 7 you have to switch the mouse and so your focus...

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Jack Schofield

@openhgs Windows users have had multiple desktops since Linus started writing Linux. They just haven't shipped as standard because not enough...

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