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Hack into Google Chrome, and you could win $60,000, at least if you do it through Google's Pwnium 2 competition.CNET From ACM Careers | October 11, 2012
When Jonathan Goldman arrived for work in June 2006 at LinkedIn, the business networking site, the place still felt like a start-up.Harvard Business Review From ACM Careers | October 5, 2012
What kinds of gear will be needed by future firefighters, EMTs, and cops? To find out, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security asked its analysts and experts to....S. Department of Homeland Security, Science & Technology Directorate From ACM Careers | October 5, 2012
In 2004, Mark Zuckerberg launched Facebook from his Harvard University dorm room, hoping to see what his classmates were up to on campus. The following eight years...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM Opinion | October 4, 2012
Julie Medeiros thinks her taste in fashion is worth something. Turns out it is: about $50 a month.The New York Times From ACM Careers | October 4, 2012
Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have created a virtual network of 300,000 handheld computing devices running the Android operating system in order...Sandia National Laboratories From ACM Careers | October 2, 2012
The U.S. National Science Foundation has awarded $50 million for research projects to build a cybersecure society and protect the United States' vast information....S. National Science Foundation From ACM Careers | September 27, 2012
Computer scientists at the University of Texas, Dallas have developed a technique to automatically allow one computer in a virtual network to monitor another...niversity of Texas, Dallas From ACM Careers | September 21, 2012
Long envisioned as an alternative to remembering scores of computer passwords or lugging around keys to cars, homes and businesses, technology that identifies people...San Jose Mercury News From ACM News | September 20, 2012
Facebook engineering director Arturo Bejar is a numbers guy by training. But he's also in charge of the giant social network's foray into what it calls "compassion...San Jose Mercury News From ACM Opinion | September 19, 2012
A security mechanism developed at the University of Alabama at Birmingham will eliminate the security weaknesses of Near Field Communication and help prevent theft...niversity of Alabama at Birmingham From ACM Careers | September 12, 2012
Some U.S. government programs aim to teach kids the wrongness of hacking so they will be less likely to use their computing skills malevolently. NextGov.com From ACM TechNews | September 7, 2012
On a dusk-lit beach on Washington's Olympic Peninsula, four miles from the northwesternmost point of the continental U.S., a man dressed in a mad scientist's white...Forbes From ACM Careers | September 10, 2012
Cybersecurity experts are working to keep medical devices — and the patients they help — safe from hackers.Kansas State niversity From ACM Careers | September 7, 2012
Enterprise employers and security specialists are increasingly growing concerned about what some see as a deepening skills shortage in the information technology...Network World From ACM TechNews | September 4, 2012
UT Dallas computer scientists have created a software system named Frankenstein that could aid the development of cyberattack countermeasures. niversity of Texas, Dallas From ACM Careers | August 28, 2012
Top graduate students pursuing careers in cybersecurity worked alongside Sandia and other prominent cybersecurity experts in a weeklong summer institute sponsored...Sandia National Laboratories From ACM Careers | August 27, 2012
In January, Sameer Bhalotra left his position as President Obama's senior director for cybersecurity without discussing his next move.The New York Times From ACM Careers | August 22, 2012
Some kids go to band camp; others go to swim camp. But for the children of the world's digital rabble-rousers, there is hacking camp. It's called DefCon Kids.NPR From ACM Careers | August 20, 2012
Researchers have renewed their call for help in cracking an "encrypted warhead" they believe was unleashed by a powerful nation-state and may be poised to search...ArsTechnica From ACM Careers | August 14, 2012