The event is akin to Black Friday and Cyber Monday in the U.S., but it is 2.5 times larger than both of those dates put together.
Similar to Black Friday and Cyber Monday in the U.S., Singles' Day is China's biggest online shopping event and last year's scored Alibaba a record $9.3 billion in revenue, with its online payments service Alipay getting a boost as well.
Cyber-attacks and cyber breaches feature in the headlines on a near daily basis and are perceived by many businesses and governments as one of the biggest challenges they face.
However, the development of research in computer and cyber crime within the field of criminology has just begun to develop over the past few years.
Milan Patel, a former FBI cyber agent and now managing director for cyber defense at K2 Intelligence, said the intermingling of espionage and cyber crime in Russia had led the United States and its allies to be far more wary about alerting Moscow to criminal hackers.
"Like every technology company, we are constantly working to improve our defenses in the battle against malicious hackers and cyber criminals," Sine said in the letter.
While the Morta deal is significantly smaller, and the functions of the startups vary, perhaps we'll be seeing more consolidation in the network and cyber security world in 2014.
5) Funding Fundingg has not kept up with times and inflation and that has been exacerbated by the charters and cyber schools that take the average in funding even though they spend less that the average on students.
Osnos, James Surowiecki, and John Seabrook join host Dorothy Wickenden to survey the roles that hacking and cyber security play in what Osnos calls the "steady growth of colliding interests" — in national-security, political, and economic realms — of both countries.
Those purposes include countering terrorism, weapons proliferation and cyber threats, Clapper said in the statement.
