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China Launches Quantum Satellite in Bid to Pioneer Secure Communications
China launched the world's first quantum communications satellite from the Gobi Desert early Tuesday, a major step in the country’s bid to be at the forefront of...
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Spiking Genomic Databases with Misinformation Could Protect Patient privacy
Large genomic databases are indispensable for scientists looking for genetic variations associated with diseases. But they come with privacy risks for people who...
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China's New Satellite Would Create the World's Largest Quantum Network
China's quantum network could soon span two continents, thanks to a satellite launched earlier today. Launched at 1:40PM ET, the Quantum Science Satellite is designed...
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Ironic Windows Vulnerability Shows Why Backdoors Can't Work
Apple's refusal to comply with a court order to help the FBI crack an iPhone highlighted the pressure tech companies face to include backdoors in their software...
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Tim Cook: Running Apple 'is Sort of a Lonely Job'
On a sleek white coffee table in Apple CEO Tim Cook's fourth-floor office in late July, beneath framed posters of Robert F. Kennedy, the Rev. Martin Luther King...
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Envisioning Bitcoin's Technology at the Heart of Global Finance
A new report from the World Economic Forum predicts that the underlying technology introduced by the virtual currency Bitcoin will come to occupy a central place...
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New Air-Gap Jumper Covertly Transmits Data in Hard-Drive Sounds
Researchers have devised a new way to siphon data out of an infected computer even when it has been physically disconnected from the Internet to prevent the leakage...
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Researchers Find That Android Apps Can Secretly Track Users' Whereabouts
A team of researchers has demonstrated how Android applications can be manipulated to transmit sensitive information using a phone's built-in sensors.
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Cyberattack Concerns Real About U.s. Presidential Election, Stanford Scholar Says
Stanford University cybersecurity scholar Herbert Lin contends foreign hackers constitute a viable threat against the U.S. presidential election.
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A New Wireless Hack Can Unlock 100 Million Volkswagens
In 2013, when University of Birmingham computer scientist Flavio Garcia and a team of researchers were preparing to reveal a vulnerability that allowed them todelayed...
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'faceless Recognition System' Can Identify You Even When You Hide Your Face
With widespread adoption among law enforcement, advertisers, and even churches, face recognition has undoubtedly become one of the biggest threats to privacy out...
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Where in the World Is My Data and How Secure Is It?
When Max Schrems, an Austrian privacy activist, requested to see his personal data that Facebook stored on its servers, he was mailed a CD-ROM containing a 1,222...
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Study Highlights Serious Security Threat to Many Internet sers
Researchers have identified a vulnerability in the Transmission Control Protocol of all Linux operating systems that enables attackers to hijack Internet communications...
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Fbi Chief Comey: 'we Have Never Had Absolute Privacy'
FBI Director James Comey has some phones—650 of them, to be exact—that he'd really, really like to take a look at.
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Encryption's Quantum Leap: The Race to Stop the Hackers of Tomorrow
Researchers are looking into the construction of new quantum-proof cryptography ito thwart quantum-based schemes future hackers could use to crack sensitive data...
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When Computers Are The Hackers
A Pittsburgh company's cyber reasoning system takes the $2-million grand prize in the DARPA Cyber Grand Challenge.
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How to Hack an Election in 7 Minutes
When Princeton professor Andrew Appel decided to hack into a voting machine, he didn't try to mimic the Russian attackers who hacked into the Democratic National...
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Cyber Protections Contemplated For U.s. Election Systems
The Obama administration is considering boosting cyber protections for U.S. election systems by classifying them as critical infrastructure.
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