In a decision that will satisfy nobody, the jury in the Oracle-Google copyright case has concluded that Google did indeed infringe Oracle’s Java copyrights – but failed to agree whether Google’s actions amounted to ‘fair use’. The decision means that Google won’t have to redesign its Android operating system, but may mean it’s forced to […]

Researchers from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) and the Injury Control Research Center at West Virginia University (WVU-ICRC) have found that intimate partner violence resulted in 142 homicides among women at work in the U.S. from 2003 to 2008, a figure which represents 22 percent of the 648 workplace homicides among

The U.S. Homeland Security Department should work with companies in setting cybersecurity standards, said Wes Bush, chief executive officer of Northrop Grumman Corp. (NOC), one of the nation’s largest defense contractors. “The notion of having DHS involved with industries in a partnership approach to ultimately lead to standards setting, I think that’s the right […]

District 203 administrators will get live camera feeds on their phones Administrators at some Naperville schools soon will be able to keep an eye on things whether they’re across the building or across the country. Naperville Unit District 203 plans to allow administrators access to live security camera images from mobile devices such as iPads […]

Consumers still have faith in payment cards, but Global Payments Inc.’s massive data breach will make life tougher for issuers trying to reassure audiences that all is well. News of the event rippled across mainstream websites over the past weekend, reawakening consumer and industry concerns about the risk to millions when criminals expose sensitive data, […]

Hackers broke into Nasa computer systems 13 times last year and gained “full functional control” of systems in breaches that could have compromised US national security, the space agency has admitted. Nasa spends only $58m of its $1.5bn annual IT budget on cyber security, Paul Martin, the agency’s inspector general, told a Congressional panel on […]