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Maximum security: Essential tools for everyday encryption

Thanks to technical advances and increased adoption, securing your data and communications is a lot easier than you might think

By Fahmida Rashid

Dec 14, 2015 14 mins

Cloud Security Encryption Technology Industry

Let’s encrypt — because we really ought to

While politicians across the globe strive to undermine our security and privacy, the Let's Encrypt consortium is making Internet security free and easy

By Paul Venezia

Dec 14, 2015 4 mins

Encryption Security Technology Industry

The mega-clouds are coming for your data center

In the future, enterprises may be as unlikely to stand up their own data centers as build their own power plants

By Matt Asay

Dec 14, 2015 4 mins

Cloud Computing Technology Industry

IBM’s open source JVM project could also speed Ruby, Python

IBM's internal OMR project makes maintaining JVM easier across platforms -- and may give other languages a performance boost

By Serdar Yegulalp

Dec 11, 2015 3 mins

Java Ruby Technology Industry

Some versions of .Net Framework to be discontinued in January

As previously warned, Microsoft is ending support for .Net Framework 4, 4.5, and 4.5.1 on Jan. 12, 2016

By Fahmida Rashid

Dec 11, 2015 3 mins

Security Small and Medium Business Technology Industry

Sen. Ted Cruz wants minimum H-1B wage of $110,000

Cruz's H-1B reform bill proposes raising wages and ending the OPT program, which provides a means to work via a student visa

By Patrick Thibodeau

Dec 11, 2015 7 mins

Careers IT Jobs Technology Industry

Final cyber security bill paves way for the surveillance state

Closed-door negotiations in Congress threaten to strip privacy provisions from final version of the merged cyber security bill

By Caroline Craig

Dec 11, 2015 6 mins

Privacy Security Technology Industry

SAP’s big challenge: proving the business case for Hana

Licensing concerns are a key stumbling block on the way to S/4Hana, a new study found

By Katherine Noyes

Dec 10, 2015 3 mins

Software Development Technology Industry

Google’s cloud benchmarking tool ups its game

PerfKit hits 1.0, offering new tests and a stable programming framework for running benchmarks on most every cloud out there

By Serdar Yegulalp

Dec 10, 2015 2 mins

App Testing Cloud Computing Technology Industry

In Disney’s backyard, Sen. Nelson proposes big H-1B reduction

Florida Democrat's bill would reduce the H-1B visa cap by nearly 25% and allocate visas to employers paying the highest wages