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New! Rose State College Cyber Security is now also offered completely online! Call 405-733-7977 for more information!Why Rose State College Cyber Security?"Cyber security" prevents hackers, spies, ...

New book on cybersecurity for businesses. This might be helpful to use with talking to business. I haven't had time to check into in more detail, but thought it was worth sharing.

USB technology could be exploited by hackers to load malicious software on computers without triggering security alerts, new research has shown.

The recent discovery of the Heartbleed bug underscores the ever-present threats to Internet security. But it also accentuates a serious shortage of cybersecurity specialists. Eduardo Garcia, a

In 2013, approximately 27 million strains of malware were created-- about 74,000 new viruses every day. To neutralize these threats before they affect millions of people, as the Heartbleed bug did, Google has pulled together an elite team of cybersecurity researchers who will help find and eradicate bugs across the Internet.

The geopolitical landscape is ripe for hacks, attacks, and exploits, but just because big breaches are being reported more often doesn't mean you should stop caring.

The geopolitical landscape is ripe for hacks, attacks, and exploits, but just because big breaches are being reported more often doesn't mean you should stop caring.

US supermarket chain SuperValu has become the latest business to be targeted by hackers, making up to 1,000 stores vulnerable to the...

US supermarket chain SuperValu has become the latest business to be targeted by hackers, making up to 1,000 stores vulnerable to the...

In 2010, 51 percent of people working in science and engineering occupations in the United States were white men, according to the National Science Foundation. As technology becomes more intertwined with everyday life, opportunities to create, monitor and administer that technology are at an all-time high.

Learn about a new "superpower" that isn't being taught in 90% of US schools.

This year's college graduates are earning more than they expected to in their first jobs out of school. But they weren't expecting very much. Members of the class of 2014 who accepted job offers took positions with median earnings of $50,050, above their median expectations of $48,890, according to new data from the National Association of Colleges and Employers, a career-services and recruiting industry group.

October is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month. During the month of October, we will air new episodes of "Unlocking the Secrets of Cybersecurity" every Tuesday and Friday at 10 a.m. Stay tuned! For more information on #UMUCCyber programs, visit umuc.edu/cybersecurity.

Industry experts discuss the challenges of hacking, tracking, and attacking in a virtual world.

A brief introduction to cyber security for students who are new to the field. Network outages, data compromised by hackers, computer viruses and other incidents affect our lives in ways that range from inconvenient to life-threatening. As the number of mobile users, digital applications and data networks increase, so do the opportunities for exploitation.

The students in Kirsten Lunzer's fourth-grade class watch as Codey the Troll crosses their computer screen, guided by the program they wrote to leap obstacles and collect blue jelly beans. These programming-savvy students in Minnetonka are on the leading edge of a new high-tech era that has Minnesota schools scrambling to respond to student demand for computer science classes that teach them how to develop software, apps, games and websites.

Unemployment in the U.S. is declining, as demand for new jobs picks up across the country, and nowhere is the need more acutely felt than in tech industry. With its heady mix of Horatio Alger rags-to-riches success stories, its emphasis on individualism and privileging hard work and education, no industry is a better poster child for post-industrial American capitalism than the startup world of coders, marketers, and salesman.

SAN FRANCISCO - A new educational institution, the coding boot camp, is quietly emerging as the vocational school for the digital age, devoted to creating software developers. These boot camps reflect the start-up ethic: small for-profit enterprises that are fast (classes are two to four months), nimble (revising curriculum to meet industry needs) and unconcerned with SAT scores or diplomas.