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Scholarship Program Targets Need For Cyber Security Skills
The Scholarship for Service (SFS) program, jointly run by the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), is becoming a widely...
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The Emerging Science of Dna Cryptography
The massively parallel nature of DNA computing represents a significant threat to existing encryption schemes, but the technology also could be used to encrypt...
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The Youngest Ethical Hacker in India
Sixteen-year-old Sahil Khan calls himself a hacker, not a cracker, a distinction that puts him on the ethical side of computer security. A "cracker" is a cyber...
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Tapia 2009 Celebration Announces Technical Program
The 2009 Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computer Conference will feature papers, panels, workshops, poster sessions, Birds-of-a-Feather meetings, a doctoral...
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Hackers Based in China Break Into Florida Senator's Office Computers
China-based hackers breached the office computers of Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson of Florida, the senator's office confirmed March 20. In three separate attacks,...
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Safer Net Surfing Is Goal of Nist Domain Name Security Experts
Scientists from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) are developing standards, guidance, and testing procedures designed to improve the security...
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Researchers Sniff Pc Keyboard Strokes From Thin Air
Research teams from the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne in Switzerland and Inverse Path say they have discovered new techniques to read what a person is...
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Sending Out Internet Warnings For Outages, Viruses
An early warning system on the Internet could help Europe avoid deliberate or accidental outages, restrict the spread of new viruses, and ensure reliable services...
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Government Cyberattacks Militarize the Web
Distributed denial of service (DDOS) attacks are now being used by governments as another way to counter opposition, warns Arbor Networks senior security researcher...
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Berners-Lee: Semantic Web Will Have Privacy Built-In
World Wide Web Consortium director Sir Tim Berners-Lee says the Semantic Web will improve online privacy protection by allowing Internet users to control who can...
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Web Founder Issues 'snooping' Warning
Web pioneer and Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Sir Tim Berners-Lee says more protection is needed to prevent Internet snooping and ensure that...
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IBM Looks to Secure Internet Banking With Usb Stick
A USB memory stick that can guarantee secure banking transactions even if a PC is tainted by malware has been developed by IBM's Zurich research laboratory.
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The Grill: Jeannette M. Wing on the Hot Seat
Carnegie Mellon University professor Jeannette M. Wing is an expert on computational thinking, the discipline of applying computer science's problem-solving methods...
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Digital Revolutionaries Discuss Past, Future of Technology
Microsoft technical fellow Butler Lampson, Google chief Internet evangelist Vinton Cerf, and Qualcomm chairman Irwin Jacobs discussed the past, present, and potential...
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Researchers Mine Millions of Metaphors Through Computer-Based Techniques
San Jose Mercury News (CA)A digital humanities project that started at Stanford University is teaching computers how to analyze text and extract metaphors to build...
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Oak Ridge Explores Cybots
Government Computer NewsThe Ubiquitous Network Transient Autonomous Mission Entities (UNTAME) program at Oak Ridge National Laboratory is working to develop technology...
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This Internet Fix Is No Pipe Dream
InfoWorldThe Internet's security problems could be corrected by exploiting existing standards and protocols for Web services, security, identity, and authentication...
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Cards on the Table: Low-Cost Tool Spots Software Security Flaws During Development Process
NCSU NewsNorth Carolina State University (NCSU) computer security experts have developed Protection Poker, a new risk management tool that helps software developers...
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Report From Dartmouth's Institute For Information Infrastructure Protection (i3p) Makes Cyber Security Research Recommendations
Dartmouth College's Institute for Information Infrastructure Protection (I3P) has given the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs...
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