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Stanford Offers More Free Online Classes For the World
Stanford University is introducing five free online classes in March as the next step in a university initiative to use new technologies to improve education....
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Stakeout: How the Fbi Tracked and Busted a Chicago Anon
"Script kiddie." No hacker worth his salt wants to hear the term used to describe him.
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Cloud Will Create 14 Million Jobs, Study Says
Cloud computing technologies will help create nearly 14 million technology-related jobs worldwide by 2015, resulting in $1.1 trillion in revenue annually, according...
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Microsoft Devises Faster, More Power-Efficient Mobile Browsing System
Microsoft is developing PocketWeb, a mobile browser system that offers faster search results and conserves battery life.
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Hackers Vie For More Than $1 Million to Take Down Browsers
As alleged hackers from LulzSec and Anonymous contemplate the possibility of a life behind bars, other hackers are limbering up in Canada this week to vie for more...
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Hackers Arrested as One Turns Witness
Federal prosecutors brought charges against a group of men allegedly behind "LulzSec"—a globe-spanning collective of computer hackers who wreaked havoc on companies...
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The Bright Side of Being Hacked
Hackers operating under the banner Anonymous have been poking a finger in the eye of one private company after another for two years now.
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Stuxnet: Computer Worm Opens New Era of Warfare
For the past few months now, the nation's top military, intelligence and law enforcement officials have been warning Congress and the country about a coming cyberattack...
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Number 1 on Army's Shopping List: Wireless Broadband
The most important element of the Army's effort to modernize itself doesn't shoot. You can't ride in it. You can't wear it for protection against homemade bombs...
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Why the Security Industry Never Actually Makes s Secure
Every year, security vendors gather at the RSA conference here to reaffirm their commitment to fencing out hackers and keeping data safe. And every year, corporate...
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The Little White Box That Can Hack Your Network
When Jayson E. Street broke into the branch office of a national bank in May of last year, the branch manager could not have been more helpful.
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Here's The Best (and Prettiest) Way To See Exactly How You're Being Tracked Online
Firefox-browser provider Mozilla has released an awesome new tool for seeing how you're being tracked on the Web.
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I'm Being Followed: How Google
This morning, if you opened your browser and went to NYTimes.com, an amazing thing happened in the milliseconds between your click and when the news appeared on...
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Et Tu, Google? Android Apps Can Also Secretly Copy Photos
It's not just Apple. Photos are vulnerable on Android phones, too.
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Dhs, Not Nsa, Should Lead Cybersecurity, Pentagon Official Says
In the midst of an ongoing turf battle over how big a role the National Security Agency should play in securing the nation’s critical infrastructure, a Defense...
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Darpa's $40k 'quest' Tests Social Media's Ability to Help in Emergency
DARPA has launched a contest to gain a better understanding of how social media can spread the word during a crisis.
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Despite Intrusions, Chances Of U.s.-China Cyberwar Are Small
A panel of security and policy experts said that, despite dire warnings about the information warfare capabilities of China and other developing nations, the risk...
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City With Superfast Internet Invites Innovators to Play
Chattanooga residents have access to a 1 Gbps Internet, which is about 100 times faster than the U.S. national average, and now the city is holding a contest with...
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For Impatient Web Users, an Eye Blink Is Just Too Long to Wait
Wait a second. No, that's too long.
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