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DARPA Wants to Toughen-p Wan Edge Networking, Security
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency wants to improve networking and security at the wide area network edge.
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Study Finds Search Engine Poisoning Persistent, Hard to Solve
A new study finds efforts to prevent the manipulation of search results are having little impact on online fraud.
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Self-Repairing Software Tackles Bugs
University of Utah researchers have developed a software suite that can detect and eliminate malware.
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Fighting Crime Through Crowdsourcing
Researchers are developing a computing model that uses crowdsourcing to combine and optimize human efforts and machine-computing elements.
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81% of Tor sers Can Be De-Anonymised By Analysing Router Information, Research Indicates
More than 81% of Tor clients can be ‘de-anonymized’ by exploiting Netflow technology.
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Google's Larry Page: The Most Ambitious Ceo in the niverse
As Google's core business continues to thrive, Larry Page is making huge bets on new technology—ingestible nanoparticles, balloons that beam down broadband—that...
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Weapons Directed By Robots, Not Humans, Raise Ethical Questions
On a bright fall day last year off the coast of Southern California, an Air Force B-1 bomber launched an experimental missile that may herald the future of warfare...
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To Foil Cyberattacks, Connected Cars Need Overlapping Shields
Smart cars will need many more layers of cyberprotection than automakers believe is necessary.
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Survey: .s. Adults Feel They Are Losing Control of Their Data
Adults living in the U.S. overwhelmingly believe that the government and private companies are violating their privacy, a new survey found.
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Researchers, Medical Workers Seek Tech Answers to Ebola Outbreak
Robotics researchers plan to meet with healthcare and aid workers as part of a series of workshops on how technology can help fight Ebola and other dangerous viruses...
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Wireless Devices sed By Casual Pilots Vulnerable to Hacking, Computer Scientists Find
Apps and wireless devices used by private pilots during flights may be vulnerable to various hack attacks, according to computer scientists.
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Obama Asks FCC to Adopt Tough Net Neutrality Rules
President Barack Obama on Monday called on the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to regulate Internet service providers as public utilities.
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U.s. Agencies Struggle vs. Cyberattacks
A $10 billion-a-year effort to protect sensitive government data, from military secrets to Social Security numbers, is struggling to keep pace with an increasing...
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Umd Cyber Experts Discover Lapses in Heartbleed Bug Fix
The efforts of website administrators tasked with correcting security holes exploited by the Heartbleed bug may have fallen short.
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U.S., European Authorities Strike Against Internet's Black Markets
U.S. and European law enforcement agencies last week launched a massive, coordinated strike on the so-called Dark Web.
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Google's New Open Source Privacy Effort Looks Back to the '60s
Google has announced a new open source tool for massive data sets based on differential privacy, a technique developed in the 1960s.
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Dark Net Experts Trade Theories on 'de-Cloaking' After Raids
The hidden web community has started trying to find out how services and identities were compromised after police raids led to 17 arrests.
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What Is Tor? Did Police Outfox It?
European police Friday said they had figured out how to pierce an Internet privacy tool used by dissidents, journalists and online drug dealers.
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Students Get Hands-on Experience With Open Testbed For Cybersecurity Research
The University of Southern California's Cyber Defense Technology Experimental Research Project oversees the DETERLab Education Site, a free global resource.
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