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Your Face Can Get You More Than Just Toilet Paper in China
Now a number of female students at one of the country's top universities can use their face to open doors, according to news reports.
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Should the Government Keep Stockpiling Software Bugs?
As the dust settles from the global ransomware attack that has crippled systems in more than 150 countries since Friday, the U.S. government's shadowy process for...
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The Cybersecurity Risks .s. Election Systems Face Heading Into the 2018 Elections
Cybersecurity experts are warning of U.S. voting systems' vulnerability to cyberthreats going into the 2018 midterm and 2020 presidential elections.
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nder Cyberattack: h Researchers Look at How to Catch a 'phisher'
Researchers are studying why phishing attacks are so successful in an attempt to develop the next generation of email filters.
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China, Addicted to Bootleg Software, Reels From Ransomware Attack
China is home to the world's largest group of internet users, a thriving online technology scene and rampant software piracy that encapsulates its determination...
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Fsu Technology Cracks, Fixes Passwords
New software evaluates the strength of a password by trying to break it.
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Father of the Internet: 'ai Stands For Artificial Idiot'
Google chief Internet evangelist Vint Cerf said modern artificial intelligence systems are only as smart as the people who interact with them.
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Kids, Parents Alike Worried About Privacy With Internet-Connected Toys
A new study points to anxieties about the potential for Wi-Fi-enabled Internet-connected toys to infringe on children's privacy.
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Could a Doodle Replace Your Password?
Researchers have developed an identity input method which could replace smartphone passwords with patterns drawn by the user on the device's touchscreen.
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The Shock Tactics Set to Shake p Immunology
Six times a day, Katrin pauses whatever she's doing, removes a small magnet from her pocket and touches it to a raised patch of skin just below her collar bone....
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Iarpa, Nist Hosting Face Recognition Challenge to Improve Accuracy
The Face Recognition Prize Challenge is designed to improve core face-recognition accuracy.
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Sent to Prison By a Software Program's Secret Algorithms
When Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. visited Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute last month, he was asked a startling question, one with overtones of science fiction...
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Watch Hackers Sabotage an Industrial Robot Arm
When the cybersecurity industry warns of digital threats to the "internet of things," the targets that come to mind are ill-conceived, insecure consumer products...
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In Europe's Election Season, Tech Vies to Fight Fake News
Scientists are attempting to counter a rash of fake news spreading online as European elections loom.
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Study Finds Gender Bias in Open Source Programming
Women's contributions in open source software communities tend to be accepted more often than men's in general, but they are rejected more frequently when a woman's...
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How a Cyber Attack Transformed Estonia
Cyber-attacks, information warfare, fake news—exactly 10 years ago Estonia was one of the first countries to come under attack from this modern form of hybrid warfare...
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French Election Is Facebook's Fake News Litmus Test
In the run-up to the first round of the French presidential election, the country's social media was awash in press reports of dubious origin.
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The Pentagon's Seek-and-Destroy Mission For Counterfeit Electronics
The Pentagon has known for years that a significant number of the replacement parts it buys for its missile guidance and satellite systems contain substandard counterfeit...
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How the pdate Framework Improves Security of Software pdates
New York University professor Justin Cappos has been developing The Update Framework (TUF) for eight years to help organizations update their software securely....
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