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The Security Skills Shortage Is Worse Than You Think
Enterprise employers and security specialists are increasingly growing concerned about what some see as a deepening skills shortage in the information technology...
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Prototype System Goes After Dns-Based Botnets
Researchers at the University of Georgia and the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed Pleiades, a prototype system that can better detect Domain Name...
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Microsoft, Juniper, Others in Coding Consortium Issue Guidelines For Safer Applications
The Software Assurance Forum for Excellence in Code recently issued "Practical Security Stories and Security Tasks for Agile Development Environments," a white...
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DARPA Seeks Holy Grail: Quantum-Based Data Security System
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency recently launched the Quiness program, which aims to demonstrate that quantum communications can generate secure...
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Open Source Code Libraries Seen as Rife With Vulnerabilities
Open source code libraries have a significant number of security vulnerabilities, according to an Aspect Security study that analyzed 113 million software downloads...
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Ietf Explores New Working Group on Identity Management in the Cloud
The Internet Engineering Task Force is considering approving the Simple Cloud Identity Management scheme, which manages user identity in cloud-based applications...
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New Darpa Challenge Wants nique Algorithms For Space Applications
DARPA will launch the Zero Robotics Autonomous Space Capture Challenge on March 28, a contest that asks participants to develop unique algorithms to control small...
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Mit Takes Aim at Secure, Self-Healing Cloud
MIT researchers are studying how to build a cloud computing infrastructure that recognizes and eliminates a cyberattack under normal operating procedures.
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Microsoft Researchers Say Anonymized Data Isn't So Anonymous
Data routinely gathered in Web logs, such as IP address, cookies, operating systems, browser type, and user-agent strings can threaten online privacy because they...
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DARPA Set to Develop Super-Secure 'cognitive Fingerprint'
U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency researchers are developing security technologies that go beyond recognizing complex passwords.
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Microsoft Researcher: Passwords Aren't Dead But They Need Fixing
Password use needs an overhaul that is driven by understanding the damage that can be done when password security is compromised, and researchers need to quantify...
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New System Secures Cellphones For Web Transactions
Password less authentication is an experimental two-factor authentication method designed to ensure the security of online transactions made via cell phones.
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Faq on Son of Stuxnet
What is Duqu? Duqu (pronounced dyu kyu) is primarily a remote-access Trojan targeted at a limited number of organizations in Europe, Africa, and the Middle East...
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Software Upgrades Could Produce Self-Tuning Wireless Access Points, Researchers Say
University of Wisconsin, Madison researchers have developed Airshark, software that enables wireless access points to automatically detect radio-frequency interference...
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Black Hat Pwnie Award Winner Will Be a Criminal
Law enforcement may be interested to see if anyone actually shows up to this year to accept the annual Pwnie Award for Epic Ownage at Black Hat, since all the nominees...
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Microsoft Researchers Find Spammers By Graphing Social Networks
Microsoft researchers are studying how to differentiate spammer email accounts from legitimate users' accounts, and have found that attacker accounts do not have...
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After Delay, Hacker to Show Flaws in Siemens Industrial Gear
A security researcher who says he's found serious problems with Siemens computers used in power plants and heavy industry is now expecting to go public with his...
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.s. International Cyberspace Policy Sounds Good; Will Be Hard to Implement
Although ambitious, the White House's recently issued International Strategy for Cyberspace could be difficult to deploy as some of its objectives conflict and...
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Meet the Fastest Public-Key Algorithm Few Have Even Heard Of
The Accredited Standards Committee X9 has approved NTRUEncrypt, a public-key algorithm that is considered to be faster than both elliptic-curve cryptography and...
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