Security

Looking for that face in the crowd is a lot quicker now, thanks to some Japanese surveillance scanning gear.

Alice, Bob and Eve are at it again, this time with color mixing and ropes that wrap around a clock.

IT trends for 2012 include: The consumerization of IT, bigger, badder security threats, the rise of big data and the cloud, and the IT economy.

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A group of experts from the Idaho National Laboratory are playing hackers bent on industrial destruction.

Sci-fi meets tech in new Web series

SCEA President & CEO Jack Tretton offered consumers and partners an apology for the PlayStation Network outage and then shifted focus to more positive days ahead.

If you're thinking about breaking into a Google data center, look out! This video tour showcases a lot of the security and data protection features, including lots of security guards and biometric scanners of all sorts.

Tokyo Electric Power is putting remote controlled machinery to use at the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

Japan's major electronics companies took stock of their problems on Monday, as the country struggles to come to terms with the scale of devastation following Friday's massive earthquake and tsunami.

tweetmeme_source = 'ITworld'; If you’re a fan of trying to get rid of Reply-All Syndrome (the condition by which an employee at a company feels the need to consciously or sub-consciously hit the Reply-All button to an e-mail sent to a lot of people, instead of just the sender), this week is a good week for you. First, one of the more entertaining Super Bowl XLV ads was from Bridgestone, in which an employee “accidentally” hits Reply-All to an e-mail message, and then has to destroy every computer or mobile device that could access said e-mail. Enjoy this “extended version” of the ad, which gives our hero a bit of revenge at the guy who pranked him: Now comes word that Reply-All behavior may be a security risk.

In the wake of a backlash from Facebook members over privacy changes the company made to the site in April, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said users will now have easier control over their data.

In order to secure your data in 2010, the first steop is knowing what type of data you hold and what regulatory standards you need to comply with.