President Barack Obama's cybersecurity executive order, announced during his State of the Union address Tuesday night, elicited guarded praise from several quarters even as it revived calls for more comprehensive bipartisan legislation to ...
U.S. President Barack Obama has signed an executive order requiring federal agencies to share cyberthreat information with private companies and to create a cybersecurity framework focused on reducing risks to companies providing critical ...
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U.S. President Barack Obama on Tuesday signed an executive order, which will require federal agencies to share cyberthreat information with private companies, creating a cybersecurity framework focused on reducing risks to companies ...
President Barack Obama is expected to issue a cybersecurity executive order in the days after his Feb. 12 State of the Union address. The long-expected executive order will create a voluntary program that will call for companies in ...
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Mac computers have stopped running programs written using the Java programming language in their browsers, as Apple blocked it because of security problems. Apple has previously blocked, then unblocked, the latest version of Java on the ...
The U.S. Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security have asked for more time to consider Softbank's proposed takeover of Sprint Nextel, a move that may signal a rough road ahead for the US$20 billion deal. In a letter ...
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Oracle's head of Java security is promising the vendor will "fix" issues with the widely used programming language, as well as improve its outreach efforts to community members, following a spate of high-profile vulnerabilities. "The plan ...
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Oracle's head of Java security, Milton Smith, has assured users of the software that the vendor will fix its security issues and improve communication efforts. In a conference call with Java User Group leaders, Smith outlined the ...
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As the Senate prepares to take another stab at passing a comprehensive cyber security bill, a new report shows the number of cyber attacks growing dramatically from China. China has accounted for the largest percentage of attacks since ...
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Hacker group Anonymous said it had disabled the US Sentencing Commission's website in revenge for the death of internet freedom advocate Aaron Swartz, and vowed to release government data. The website of the commission, an independent ...
Oracle’s head of Java security has promised that the vendor will “fix” issues with the widely used programming language, as well as improve its outreach efforts to community members, following a spate of high-profile ...
Oracle must dramatically step up its security game, security experts said this week, following the release of a number of very public vulnerabilities in Java, many of which still remain unpatched. “Oracle should just take a mulligan ...
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Beset by some very public vulnerabilities in Java, and apparently unable to properly patch those bugs, Oracle must dramatically step up its security game, experts said Monday. "Oracle should just take a mulligan and redesign Java before ...
A Philips information management system, which is used in making administrative chores in hospital more efficient, contains vulnerabilities that can be exploited to gain full control of the product, a security vendor said on Thursday. ...
Even after Oracle patched critical Java vulnerabilities on Monday, the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) continued urging users to disable Java browser plug-ins. "Due to the number and severity of this and prior Java ...