CTO / Technology
Inside Hackers: $40B Threat for U.S. Employers
Fired from a job as a technology contractor for a Toyota Motor Corp. factory in Kentucky, Ibrahimshah Shahulhameed went home, logged into the company's computer network and attacked it with ...
IRS Warns of FATCA-Related Phishing Scams
The Internal Revenue Service is warning that "scam artists" posing as members of the agency are using phone calls and faxes in an attempt to steal financial and account holder information from ...
SAP Agrees to Buy Expense Software Company Concur for $7.3B
Germany's SAP has agreed to buy U.S. expenses software maker Concur for $7.3 billion in cash, strengthening its position in cloud computing, an area it long hoped to avoid until its momentum became ...
Why Company Culture Matters to CIOs
Many new CIOs make the same mistake. They've just been hired into their new position and have a mandate from those who did the hiring—the board, the CEO, an executive search committee—to "shake ...AIG Names Kaiser Permanente Veteran as New Tech Chief
American International Group Inc. hired Philip Fasano to the newly created chief information officer role as Chief Executive Officer Peter Hancock counts on technology to improve results. Fasano, 56, ...
RiskMatch: Unlocking $120B in Premium Opportunities for Carriers
With an ultimate goal of onboarding 97 brokers handling $120 billion of premium on its platform, a new entrant in the world of broker analytics offers carriers a clearer window into relationships ...
Smartphones at Risk: Vulnerable to Stolen Passwords, Data Theft
Security researchers revealed two separate threats last week they say could put up to 90 percent of the world's 2 billion plus smartphones at risk of password theft, stolen data and in some cases let ...
New Class of Hacker Attacks May Target USB Devices
USB devices such as mice, keyboards and thumb-drives can be used to hack into personal computers in a potential new class of attacks that evade all known security protections, a top computer ...