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Beyond Cell Phone Wallets, Biometrics Promise Truly Wallet-Free Future
Ever since Google announced that its Android phones would be equipped with a "digital wallet" that allows users to pay for things simply by touching their phone...
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Forget Passwords and Let the Browser Remember
The Mozilla Foundation recently released BrowserID, an experimental tool designed to change the way users identify themselves online by storing identity information...
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A Futures Market For Computer Security
A pilot prediction market that can forecast major information security incidents before they occur is under development by information security researchers from...
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Bug-Squashing Tools Offered to Improve Network Security
The Department of Homeland Security has announced an initiative to shore up security by squashing software bugs. This follows a slew of high-profile attacks on...
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Software Extracts Your Location on Twitter Even When It's Secret
Users of online social media reveal more about themselves than they realize, and participation involves a great deal more trust than they think, suggests new research...
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Most Malware Tied to 'pay-Per-Install' Market
Researchers have found that most personal computers that get infected with malware were targeted by pay-per-install services, which charge hacking gangs up to $180...
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Making the Case For Security
Major corporations have made serious mistakes with information security recently, resulting in spectacular failures to protect business and customer records....
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What Bitcoin Is, and Why It Matters
Recent weeks have been exciting for a relatively new kind of currency speculator. In just three weeks, the total value of a unique new digital currency called...
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Tracking How Mobile Apps Track You
Third-party apps are the weakest link in user privacy on smart phones. They often get access to large quantities of user data, and there are few rules covering...
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The Next Big Thing in Analytics: Tracking Your Cursor's Every Move
Media, search engines, advertisers and social networks have been tracking what you click since the birth of the Web, but this measurement yields an incomplete...
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Failure Cascading Through the Cloud
Two major cloud computing services, Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud and Sony's PlayStation Network, recently suffered extended outages. Though the circumstances...
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App-Specific Processors to Fight Dark Silicon
University of California, San Diego researchers working on the GreenDroid project have developed software that scans the Android operating system and its most popular...
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How People Broadcast Their Locations Without Meaning To
Smartphones include geotagging features many people aren't aware of.
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Microsoft Browser Would Offer Personalization Along With Privacy Protection
Microsoft researchers have developed RePriv, a browser that analyzes users' online behavior and controls how their personal information is released to sites that...
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The Botnets That Won't Die
New communications schemes could make zombie PC networks far more difficult to shut down.
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Busting the Botnets
They're the scourge of the Internet—networks containing thousands or even millions of virus-infected, remote-controlled PCs. These so-called "botnets" send out...
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Social Search, Without a Social Network
Google may be built on an algorithm for taming the Web, but yesterday the company added social features that will let your friends help determine what ranks high...
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How Cruise Missiles Would Beat Gps Jammers in Libya
Now that jammers are cheap and potentially ubiquitous, how do Tomahawk missiles stay on course?
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Taking Control of Cars From Afar
Researchers who have spent the last two years studying the security of car computer systems have revealed that they can take control of vehicles wirelessly.
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