Technology/Science
How Twitter Shapes Public Opinion: Research
How does Twitter, with its 241 million users tweeting out 500 million messages daily, shape public opinion? That question was tackled by a group of researchers in China who investigated how opinions ...
Loss of 20 Employees on Malaysian Plane Stirs Questions About Corporate Travel
The loss of 20 key Freescale Semiconductor employees in the disappearance of a Malaysian airliner on Saturday raises questions about whether the company should have allowed so many of them to board ...
Suspected Russian Spyware Turla Targets Europe, United States
A sophisticated piece of spyware has been quietly infecting hundreds of government computers across Europe and the United States in one of the most complex cyber espionage programs uncovered to date. ...
Early Warning: El Nino Could Strike by Summer
The much-feared El Nino phenomenon, the warming of sea surface temperatures in the Pacific which can trigger drought in Southeast Asia and Australia and floods in South America, could strike as early ...
Oceanwide Launches Online Cloud Provider Risk Assessment Tool for Insurers
Oceanwide, Inc.announced the launch of its Cloud Provider Assessment Model (CPAM) Thursday, noting that the tool was designed for the insurance industry to give information technology (IT) and ...
Visa CFO Says Industry Fraud Costs to Soar as Hackers Innovate
Payment networks, retailers and banks will continue to face significant costs to address fraud as hackers find new ways to steal data, according to Byron Pollitt, chief financial officer of Visa Inc. ...
Cyber Attacks Increasing, Costing Millions, Straining Internet
Crashing websites and overwhelming data centers, a new generation of cyber attacks is costing millions and straining the structure of the Internet. While some attackers are diehard activists, ...
Insurers Took Some of Cyber Breach Impact, Target Says
Target Corp. shares made strong gains after it reassured investors that customers were beginning to return to its U.S. stores, suggesting that the impact of a massive data breach may not be as severe ...