Facebook awards $250K of ‘stolen money’ to student cyber security researchers

October 22, 2012 5:36 PM Meghan Kelly
Meghan Kelly

Sometimes stolen money does come back to you. Facebook gave $250,000 to team of cyber security research students at the University of Alabama Birmingham today after the group helped track down hackers associated with the Koobface virus, which plagued the social network for some time.

Symantec, Facebook, Salesforce execs want a new firewall for the social age

February 28, 2012 1:19 PM Meghan Kelly
Meghan Kelly

Today’s younger generation suffers from “continuous partial attention,” Symantec chief executive Enrique Salem said at a security conference today. And it’s going to take a new kind of firewall to protect us, he said; one that doesn’t just pay attention …