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Verizon, At&t Tracking Their Users with 'supercookies'
Verizon and AT&T have been quietly tracking the Internet activity of more than 100 million cellular customers with what critics have dubbed "supercookies"—markers...
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So You Want to Hack Apple Pay?
A decade ago, a group of Johns Hopkins University grad students tried to hack one of the first commercially popular Near Field Communication payment systems—the...
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For Sale: Systems that Can Secretly Track Where Cellphone sers Go Around the Globe
Makers of surveillance systems are offering governments across the world the ability to track the movements of almost anybody who carries a cellphone, whether they...
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Why One of Cybersecurity's Thought Leaders ses a Pager Instead of a Smart Phone
In the computer and network security industry, few people are as well known as Dan Geer.
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Submarines for Saturn, Comet Hitchhikers, Asteroid Wranglers and Other Space Fantasies
If you thought Elon Musk was the only person coming up with innovative ideas for the exploration of outer space, you'd be wrong.
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Brokers se 'billions' of Data Points to Profile Americans
Are you a financially strapped working mother who smokes?
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Research in India Suggests Google Search Results Can Influence an Election
Google long ago went from being a mere directory of the Internet to a shaper of online reality, helping determine what we see and how.
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Low-Level Federal Judges Balking at Law Enforcement Requests For Electronic Evidence
Judges at the lowest levels of the federal judiciary are balking at sweeping requests by law enforcement officials for cellphone and other sensitive personal data...
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A Veteran Programmer Explains How the Stock Market Became "Rigged"
A small group of financial firms are using their technological superiority to skim the top off the market, Michael Lewis claims in his new book "Flash Boys."
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In New Case, Supreme Court Revisits the Question of Software Patents
If you write a book or a song, you can get copyright protection for it. If you invent a pill or a better mousetrap, you can patent it.
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Why Mh370 Could Still Talk to Satellites After Its Other Comms Went Dark
It's the latest mystery in the hunt for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370: Was a key communications system on board the plane disabled before or after the co-pilot calmly...
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Federal Agencies Embrace New Technology and Strategies to Find the Enemy Within
After years of focusing on outside threats, the federal government and its contractors are turning inward, aiming a range of new technologies and counterintelligence...
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Hackers Allegedly Stole $400 Million in Bitcoins. Here's How to Catch Them.
On Friday, what had been the world's leading Bitcoin exchange declared bankrutpcy, claiming that hackers had exploited a technical issue called "transaction malleability...
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Obama's Big Plan to Protect Businesses from Cyberattack
It's been a long time coming, and some experts say it isn't enough.
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'a Fema-Level Fail': The Law Professor Who Coined 'net Neutrality' Lashes Out at the Fcc's Legal Strategy
Back in 2003, when he was a law professor at the University of Virginia, Tim Wu wrote the definitive paper on net neutrality.
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.s. Innovation Boosted By Silicon Valley-Detroit Team-up
Rising consumer demand for more technology in cars has sparked a convergence between the auto and computer industries.
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Confused About the Nsa's Quantum Computing Project? This MIT Computer Scientist Can Explain.
My Washington Post colleagues have reported on a National Security Agency program to to build a quantum computer.
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Edward Snowden, After Months of Nsa Rvelations, Says His Mission's Accomplished
The familiar voice on the hotel room phone did not waste words.
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Here's What the Morris Worm Prosecutor Thinks About Aaron Swartz
It was 25 years ago Tuesday that The New York Times first named 23-year-old Cornell graduate student Robert Morris as the culprit behind what became known as the...
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