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Get a job: BIT.TRIP developer Gaijin looking for concept artists
Get a job: BIT.TRIP developer Gaijin looking for concept artists
"Gaijin is currently seeking a concept artist. Qualifications include: strong 2D skills; background in game modeling; capable of doing 3D. Experience/interest in sci-fi themes is a definite plus!"
Oct. 31, 2013
Adobe Breached Users Now Estimated at 38 Million
Adobe Breached Users Now Estimated at 38 Million
When news of the Adobe breach emerged at the beginning of October, the company admitted that bank card and other personal information on 2.9 million users had been stolen together with usernames and passwords for an undisclosed number of customers. That number is now put at 38 million.
Oct. 30, 2013
RSA Europe 2013: The Lessons BT Learnt from Securing London 2012
RSA Europe 2013: The Lessons BT Learnt from Securing London 2012
The lessons learnt from securing the digital infrastructure at the London 2012 Games have given BT a better understanding of how to do cyber defence, said Mark Hughes, CEO of BT Security in his keynote at RSA Europe today
Oct. 30, 2013
Building Security In Maturity Model: Version 5 Released
Building Security In Maturity Model: Version 5 Released
BSIMM-V is effectively a scorecard that can be used by companies to either measure or improve their existing software development security stance. It is not a 'standard' in the regulatory sense; it more a practical description of actual best practices.
Oct. 30, 2013
Attackers Ramp Up Threats to the Energy Sector
Attackers Ramp Up Threats to the Energy Sector
The US energy sector experienced the largest number of malware attacks of any industry in the spring and summer of 2012, with the end result being expensive outages at pipelines, oil refineries and drilling platforms. This year, brute-force attacks and botnet infestations are all alarmingly on the rise.
Oct. 30, 2013
OpenStack@Cisco – Havana release and IceHouse Summit
OpenStack@Cisco – Havana release and IceHouse Summit
Earlier in this month the OpenStack community came out with the biannual OpenStack release – Havana. According to the OpenStack Foundation, not only did
Oct. 30, 2013
Deploying, Testing, and Tuning 802.11ac
Deploying, Testing, and Tuning 802.11ac
By now you’ve probably heard quite a bit about the newest generation of Wi-Fi, 802.11ac.  I’ll save you the gory details, just know it’s about 3x faster...
Oct. 30, 2013
Your Device Is Wide Open on the Internet!
Your Device Is Wide Open on the Internet!
Stop-think-connect is not only for kids. Everyone, including nerds like me and network and security professionals, should pay more attention before connecting any device to the Internet. Routers...
Oct. 30, 2013
#IoTWF: How Smart Cities Can Transform and Revitalize Municipalities in the 21st Century
#IoTWF: How Smart Cities Can Transform and Revitalize Municipalities in the 21st Century
At Cisco’s inaugural Internet of Things (IoT) World Forum in Barcelona this week, I spoke about how IoT is impacting multiple industries and public sector
Oct. 30, 2013
Video: Cutthroat Capitalism educates without manipulation
Video: Cutthroat Capitalism educates without manipulation
Wired's Shannon Perkins discusses how his game Cutthroat Capitalism managed to educate its players without being manipulative in a free video courtesy of the GDC Vault.
Oct. 30, 2013
Steam is now 65 million users strong
Steam is now 65 million users strong
Valve has announced that its popular Steam distribution platform -- now home to over 3,000 titles -- has surpassed 65 million users, marked by a 30 percent growth in active accounts in the last 12 months.
Oct. 30, 2013
Kerbal Space Program heading to the classroom in a big way
Kerbal Space Program heading to the classroom in a big way
Like Mojang's Minecraft before it, sandbox spacecraft building game Kerbal Space Program is receiving a formalized educational version for use in classrooms, expected to launch this November.
Oct. 30, 2013