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October 24, 2016 Massive cyberattack poses policy dilemma, Stanford scholar says Stanford cybersecurity expert Herb Lin says the Oct. 21 cyberattack that snarled traffic on major websites reveals weaknesses in the Internet of Things that need to be addressed. But stricter security requirements could slow innovation, cost more and be difficult to enforce.   Facebook

A system control center operator sits at his computer workstation at an AEP Transmission Operations Center in New Albany, Ohio / AP BY: Bill Gertz Follow @BillGertzOctober 24, 2016 5:15 pm A major cyber attack that disrupted Internet service for major users like Twitter and Amazon in parts of the United States on Friday was

Flickr/dee & tula monstah Companies worldwide will spend $3.5 trillion on IT in 2017, market research firm Gartner predicts. Above all else, companies are expected to increase their spending on software and services (as opposed to hardware), as they all rush to buy their tech via the cloud computing model, where tech is hosted in the

If Friday marked the dawn of a new era of internet attacks then, so far at least, the new era looks an awful lot like the old one. Tomwang112/Thinkstock Where were you when a massive distributed denial-of-service attack interrupted internet connectivity for large swaths of the East Coast on Friday morning? With any luck, you

The unprecedented distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that disrupted access to scores of websites and services on Friday has led to some action: a product recall. Hangzhou Xiongmai Technology, a Chinese company whose DVRs and webcams were hijacked and used to carry out the DDoS attack, is recalling all of its webcam models, according to Reuters.

When the Internet apocalypse comes, your smart thermostat may be to blame. That’s the lesson from last week’s epic Internet outage, in which attackers used Internet-connected devices inside peoples homes to bring a large chunk of the Web to its knees. The outage, which mainly affected the East coast of the U.S., struck on Friday