You can protect yourself against identity thieves by understanding how they work, then taking the appropriate precautions with your credit card accounts.

Identity theft is often in the news, but there are a lot of misconceptions swirling around about how to best protect yourself.

Hvis du fortsatt ikke har hørt om Bitcoin, vil du snart. Bitcoin generert mye buzz i 2013, og eksperter sier at de snakker ikke være døende ned når som helst snart. Som analytikere debatt digital valuta verdi og levedyktighet, Bitcoin trading plattformer, markedsplasser og startups lanserer hver dag. Den nyeste slik Bitcoin markedet kommer fra online forhandler Overstock.com som annonsert i forrige uke at det hadde begynt aksepterer Bitcoin for kjøp. For mange små bedrifter, men Bitcoin er fortsatt et mysterium — en som, en gang avslørte, kan faktisk hjelpe vokse sin virksomhet.

Most likely your company has customers, and hopefully the information about them is stored in your CRM. Your marketing people are running campaigns for generating quality leads and the sales people are turning every single lead into an opportunity and ultimately a customer. The VP of Sales is monitoring the pipeline and poring through the vast number of reports to understand where all the sales are coming from. Life is beautiful. If only.

When Langley, B.C. resident Andrew Wilson sat down at his home computer last week, the last thing he expected to find was a ransom note.

But when his screen lit up Thursday morning, that’s exactly what Wilson saw. A message popped up that began with the ominous question: “What happened to your files?”

Na Slovensko ste zavítali v rámci projektu ERA-Can+, ktorý má podporiť spoluprácu kanadských vedcov s kolegami z Európskej únie. Ako sa dá dostať od vytvárania priestoru pre verejnú diskusiu k medzinárodnej vedeckej spolupráci?

The latest is legitimately scary: Russian hackers stole 1.2 billion unique username and password combinations – that’s nearly the population of China – and more than 500 million e-mail addresses, according to a New York Times story.

The hackers are a tight knit group, 10 or 11. They live in a Russian town, and have real jobs. But in their down time, the cybercriminals have spent the past seven months gathering a hoard of personal data, stealing 1.2 billion usernames and passwords in a series of Internet heists affecting 420,000 websites.

Conclusion: Fire CTO Design Challenge: "Privacy vs. Security: Finding a Technology Solution"

The Challenge Judges: Mark Anderson, Founder and Chair, INVNT/IP; Vaclav Vincalek, President, Pacific Coast Information Systems Ltd.; Richard Marshall, CEO, Secure Exchange Technology Innovations;

The Challenge Team: Barry Briggs, IT Chief Architect and CTO, Microsoft; Hugh Bradlow, CTO and Head of Innovation, Telstra; Larry Smarr, Director, Calit2, UC San Diego/UC Irvine (HQ Qualcomm Institute), UCSD; Kevin Surace, CEO, Appvance; Simon Aspinall, Chief of Vertical Markets, Strategy, and Marketing, Virtustream; David Schoenberger, CIO/CTO, Secure Cloud Systems; Thomas Aidan Curran, CTO Imarum GmbH

When mega- social media platform Facebook purchased messaging app WhatsApp in February, much was made of the price paid for the company. Depending on how you look at the numbers, WhatsApp was purchased for somewhere around $16 billion to $19 billion. Much was also made of one of the WhatsApp founder’s rags-to-riches story as well. Jan Koum went from waiting in line for food stamps as a newly arrived teenage immigrant from Ukraine to billionaire — not overnight, but the story is still pretty incredible.

Although people with disabilities are not usually the target audience when new technology hits the market—think smartphones, accessible vehicles and home automation—they have certainly reaped the benefits.