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(Bloomberg) — Acadian Asset Management, the Boston-based quantitative firm that manages $77 billion, struck a deal with Microsoft Corp. to use its Bing Predicts big data technology to inform its investment decisions. Acadian said it’s the first investment firm to...

By Thomas Zadvydas Once the exclusive domain of credit card thieves and fraudsters, the “Deep Web” or the related “Dark Web” is attracting a slew of startups and their venture capital backers. A part of the Internet that is not...

Gilad Peleg started his career at the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) elite cyber security unit, at the center for cryptography and security. Later, he led product management and marketing for a number of large technology organizations, as well as several...

Takeaway: Each and every year, new attacks leave behind a new normal in cybersecurity. So what will that look like in 2017? We asked experts to give us their predictions. Cybersecurity has been a key topic in IT for years...

So, remember ransomware? Holds your precious data hostage and won’t give it back unless you pay the cyber crooks who stole it in the first place, that whole deal? Well get ready – unfortunately, that was just the warmup. Security...

Security needs to be baked into IoT devices for there to be any chance of halting a DDoS attack, according to security experts. Forrester predicts that more than 500,000 internet of things (IoT) devices will suffer a compromise in 2017,...

As if holding your data hostage and seeking cash payment weren’t harsh enough, security experts foresee the next stage of ransomware to be even worse. Scott Millis, CTO at mobile security company Cyber adAPT, expects ransomware to spin out of...

Yahoo’s billion-user breach calls the company’s security practices into question. A second massive and “distinct” Yahoo breach – affecting more than one billion users – that was disclosed Wednesday has raised a number of questions, primarily why the internet company...

One statement shows the main problem web services like Yahoo’s face on a 24/7 basis: Credibility in safeguarding personal information is of utmost importance. For a company that really could use some good news for a change, Yahoo has had...

Alex Vaystikh, CTO and co-founder, SecBI As more IT infrastructure transitions to become cloud-based and accessible from anywhere, hackers will focus on targeting browsers as the weak point. Browsers are essentially the operating system today, no matter whether you are using Windows...