AWS Hosts Fifth Annual Cloud Computing Challenge

Amazon Web Services, an Amazon.com company, announced today the start of its fifth annual AWS Start-Up Challenge, a contest that recognizes new and innovative uses of its cloud computing platform in start-up companies.

Amazon Web Services has expanded the contest worldwide and will choose a total of 15 regional semifinalists from the Americas, Asia Pacific, Europe, the Middle…

Sen. Durbin Introduces Federal Bill to Collect Online Sales Tax

Congress introduced a bill Friday that would establish a federal framework for collecting sales tax from online retailers. The bill would provide a federal solution to the growing issue of states seeking to collect billions in taxes from online transactions.

Sen. Dick Durbin and Reps. John…

Expert: Hackers Could Free Prisoners from Jail Cells

Researchers are now warning that vulnerabilities in the electronic infrastructures of prisons could allow hackers to release prisoners from their jail cells.

According to Wired, security consultant and engineer John Strauchs said some of the same vulnerabilities that the Stuxnet superworm used to sabotage centrifuges at a nuclear plant in Iran exist…

Anonymous Strikes Again, Hacks ManTech

The online hactivist group “Anonymous” gained access to yet another government security contractor’s server and released approximately 400 megabytes of sensitive, internal documents.

The servers at ManTech International, a company that provides cybersecurity services to the U.S. government, were breached by the group on Friday and announced on the group’s Twitter account.

“ManTech has been owned,” Anonymous tweeted. “Release within 24h.”

Included in that batch of stolen information are mail…