SAN FRANCISCO When WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange disclosed earlier this month that his anti-secrecy group had obtained CIA instruments for hacking into technology products made by U.S. corporations, security engineers at Cisco Systems (CSCO.) swung into action.
Anglo American’s new board leader will even need to cope with a new share register. Shortly after incumbent chairman John Parker announced in February that he would step down, Indian miner Vedanta’s chairman Anil Agarwal used an exchangeable bond to acquire a sizeable chunk of Anglo American shares and buy influence. Microsoft had an efficient monopoly on computing software in the 1990s and was for some time the world’s most dear publicly traded company.
A latest reorganization at the NSA, often known as NSA21, eradicated the branch that was explicitly accountable for defense, the Information Assurance Directorate (IAD), the biggest cyber-defense workforce within the government. Its mission has now been combined with the …