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CPDoS Attack Can Poison CDNs to Deliver Error Pages Instead of Legitimate Sites
Researchers in Germany discovered a new type of Web attack that can compromise content delivery networks into caching and then serving error pages instead of legitimate...
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Canberra Gives AU$32m for Autonomous Decision-Making Research
The Australian government is allocating AU$31.8 million (about US$21.5 million) to the Australian Research Council to study responsible, ethical, and inclusive...
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Cybersecurity Giants to Combat Cyberthreats Under OASIS Umbrella
IBM, McAfee, and 16 more firms have launched an effort to address fragmentation and interoperability problems in cybersecurity.
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La Trobe University Swaps Textbooks for VR, AR
La Trobe University will swap out textbooks for augmented reality and virtual reality to teach anatomy as part of a 12-week pilot program.
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Academics Find Vulnerabilities in Android's VoIP Components
Scientists at China's OPPO ZIWU Cyber Security Lab, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and Singapore Management University identified eight flaws in Android's...
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IBM Hackathon Winner Helps Fight Rash of Wasted Food
A group called FreShip was named the winner of IBM’s Food Waste Developer Challenge, a hackathon that tasked U.S. developers to create food-waste-combatting solutions...
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PDFex Attack Can Exfiltrate Data from Encrypted PDF Files
Researchers in Germany have developed a new attack that can extract and steal data from encrypted Portable Document Format (PDF) files, sometimes without user...
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Microsoft Poses Threat to Germany's Digital Sovereignty, Warns Study
An analysis by PricewaterhouseCoopers has confirmed that the German government is too dependent on the software of just a few software providers.
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Intel Server-Grade CPUs Impacted by New NetCAT Attack
Researchers have described a new exploit targeting Intel central processing units that support Data-Direct I/O Technology and Remote Direct Memory Access features...
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2020 IT Budgets Increase as Priorities Grow
A TechRepublic Premium survey found that information technology budgets plans for 2020 continue to grow year over year.
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Avast, French Police Take Over Malware Botnet, Disinfect 850,000 Computers
Antivirus maker Avast and the French National Police neutralized the back-end infrastructure of a malware botnet.
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One in Five U.K. Schools Says Students Have Broken Into Computer Systems
A cybersecurity audit found 21% of 430 U.K. schools had their computers, networks, or servers hacked by students.
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COBOL Turns 60: Why It Will Outlive Us All
In the beginning, there was machine languages and assembler. Neither was easy to use, but then along came COBOL, and everything changed.
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Developer Jobs: From SQL to Java, These are the Skills Companies are Looking for Now
More than 140,000 advertisements for IT jobs were listed in the U.K. in the second quarter of this year, 13% fewer than were listed in the first quarter
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Mobile Malware Attacks are Booming in 2019: These are the Most Common Threats
Malware attacks against mobile devices, especially Android handsets, have ballooned this year.
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The Fastest Growing U.S. City for Tech Pros Is Not Where You Think
Talent acquisition company iCIMS found that Raleigh, NC, was the top U.S. city for tech job growth, as the number of available tech jobs there grew 56.9% year over...
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Hackers Breach Greece's Top-Level Domain Registrar
Researchers said Greece's top-level domain registrar has suffered a hacker breach, and identified the state-sponsored "Sea Turtle" hacker group as the perpetrator...
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Neuromorphic Computing Finds New Life in Machine Learning
Researchers are working to resolve the fact that spiking neurons currently have no way that they can be trained via gradient descent—the basis of conventional machine...
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Google's Language Techniques Help O2 Czech Republic Reveal Network Secrets
Word2vec, a neural network technique developed to understand human languages, also can interpret raw cell tower data.
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