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Documentation Academy Aims to Empower Open Source Newcomers
From ACM Careers Canonical's Open Documentation Academy aims to help newcomers participate in the open source community, offering mentorship and… BNN | February 28, 2024
Drexel Lab Releases Software to Discern and Disguise Authorship
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Drexel Lab Releases Software to Discern and Disguise Authorship

Computer engineers at Drexel University developed a pair of open-source software programs that could help protect the free speech of whistle-blowers, protestors... Drexel ­niversity
From ACM Careers | January 25, 2012
What Hacker Apprenticeships Tell ­S About the Future of Education
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What Hacker Apprenticeships Tell ­S About the Future of Education

Three very similar compressed software development training programs have emerged in the past few months: Code Academy (not to be confused with the startup Codecademy)... The Atlantic
From ACM Careers | January 12, 2012
Sandia Cyber Project Looks to Help It Professionals with Dns Vulnerabilities
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Sandia Cyber Project Looks to Help It Professionals with Dns Vulnerabilities

Sandia National Laboratories' Casey Deccio has developed a visualization tool known as DNSViz to help network administrators within the federal government and global... Sandia National Laboratories
From ACM Careers | January 11, 2012
Stephen Hawking's New Pc
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Stephen Hawking's New Pc

Intel application engineer Travis Bonifield has been working closely with Hawking to communicate with the world for a decade. Intel Free Press
From ACM Opinion | January 10, 2012
Professor's Signcryption Technology Now An International Standard
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Professor's Signcryption Technology Now An International Standard

After nearly a three-year process, the research efforts of UNC Charlotte's College of Computing and Informatics' Professor, Yuliang Zheng, have been formally recognized... ­niversity of North Carolina at Charlotte
From ACM Careers | January 9, 2012
Military Academies Look to Fill Nation's Cybersecurity Gaps
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Military Academies Look to Fill Nation's Cybersecurity Gaps

U.S. military academies have been developing potential cyberwarriors for years, but has difficulty finding them positions that use their cyberskills. Most graduates... National Defense
From ACM TechNews | January 4, 2012
Civilian Contractors Playing Key Roles in ­.s. Drone Operations
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Civilian Contractors Playing Key Roles in ­.s. Drone Operations

After a U.S. airstrike mistakenly killed at least 15 Afghans in 2010, the Army officer investigating the accident was surprised to discover that an American civilian... The Los Angeles Times
From ACM News | January 3, 2012
Infosec Careers: The New Demands
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Infosec Careers: The New Demands

A major goal for information security students and institutions should be developing a cultural way of learning, instead of simply studying for tests and doing... GovInfoSecurity.com
From ACM Careers | December 28, 2011
Meet Sopa Author Lamar Smith, Hollywood's Favorite Republican
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Meet Sopa Author Lamar Smith, Hollywood's Favorite Republican

Rep. Lamar Smith, whose congressional district in Texas encompasses the cropland and grazing land stretching between Austin and San Antonio, might seem like an... CNET
From ACM News | December 15, 2011
Gchq Aims to Recruit Computer Hackers with Code-Cracking Web Site
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Gchq Aims to Recruit Computer Hackers with Code-Cracking Web Site

Government intelligence service targets "self-taught" hackers with cryptic Web site that features no obvious branding. The Guardian
From ACM Careers | December 5, 2011
The Search For Analysts to Make Sense of 'big Data'
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The Search For Analysts to Make Sense of 'big Data'

Businesses keep vast troves of data about things like online shopping behavior, or millions of changes in weather patterns, or trillions of financial transactions—information... National Public Radio
From ACM News | December 2, 2011
­ser Resistance to Password Security Explored
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­ser Resistance to Password Security Explored

Though most organizations have policies and guidelines to protect their information systems from unauthorized access, research has shown that employee compliance... Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State ­niversity
From ACM Careers | October 28, 2011
Cyber Workshop at Sandia Labs Seeks Potential Responses to Cyberattacks
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Cyber Workshop at Sandia Labs Seeks Potential Responses to Cyberattacks

The difficulties of defending utilities, commerce and national security against cyberattacks, and what to do to change that situation, were major themes of a recent... Sandia National Laboratories
From ACM Careers | October 27, 2011
Georgia Tech Turns Iphone Into Spiphone
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Georgia Tech Turns Iphone Into Spiphone

A research team from Georgia Tech has discovered how to program a smartphone to sense nearby keyboard vibrations and decipher complete sentences with up to 80 percent... Georgia Institute of Technology
From ACM Careers | October 19, 2011
­.va. Team Awarded $3 Million Nsf Secure Computation Grant
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­.va. Team Awarded $3 Million Nsf Secure Computation Grant

The U.S. National Science Foundation has awarded a $3 million grant to a team lead by University of Virginia computer scientist David Evans for a project to develop... ­niversity of Virginia
From ACM Careers | October 18, 2011
From ACM News

How Many Security Clearances Have Been Issued?

More than 4.2 million people have security clearances for access to classified information, a number that vastly outstrips previous estimates and nearly rivals... The Washington Post
From ACM News | October 7, 2011
Cmu's Brumley Receives Prestigious Pecase Award For Cybersecurity Research
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Cmu's Brumley Receives Prestigious Pecase Award For Cybersecurity Research

Carnegie Mellon University's David Brumley has won a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers — the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government... Carnegie Mellon ­niversity
From ACM Careers | October 4, 2011
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In China, Business Travelers Take Extreme Precautions to Avoid Cyber-Espionage

Packing for business in China? Bring your passport and business cards, but maybe not that laptop loaded with contacts and corporate memos. The Washington Post
From ACM News | September 28, 2011
Hackers' Low-Tech Tool: A Phone Call
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Hackers' Low-Tech Tool: A Phone Call

The conference for the best hackers in the free world is held every year in Las Vegas. It's called DefCon. The entrance fee is $150, cash only. (And it's a bad... National Public Radio
From ACM Careers | August 17, 2011
Defcon Opens Its Doors to Pre-Teen and Teen Hackers
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Defcon Opens Its Doors to Pre-Teen and Teen Hackers

DefCon, the conference where hackers and the people who monitor them get together to trade the latest in hacking and tracking data, had some new attendees: children... The Washington Post
From ACM News | August 9, 2011
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