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Steganography Is No Laughing Matter
A computer scientist has developed an approach to steganography that uses jokes to make hidden messages less obvious.
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Researchers Find 25 Countries Using Surveillance Software
As many as 25 governments, some with controversial human rights records, appear to engage in surveillance of citizens using off-the-shelf software.
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10 Extraordinary Pentagon Mind Experiments
It’s been 30 years since the first message was sent over initial nodes of the Arpanet, the Pentagon-sponsored precursor to the internet. But this month, researchers...
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Cryptographers Demonstrate New Crack For Common Web Encryption
It's long been known that one of the oldest and most widely used standards for encrypting Web sites has some serious weaknesses. But one group of researchers has...
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Peter G. Neumann: Top Cop on the Hair-Raising Cybersecurity Beat
The threat is always there—in your car, at the office, on the table next to where you sleep at night: a near-biblical plague of worms, phisher kings, identity thieves...
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Pentagon Creating Teams to Launch Cyberattacks as Threat Grows
The Pentagon's Cyber Command will create 13 offensive teams by the fall of 2015 to help defend the nation against major computer attacks from abroad, Gen. Keith...
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Google Concedes That Drive-By Prying Violated Privacy
Google on Tuesday acknowledged to state officials that it had violated people's privacy during its Street View mapping project when it casually scooped up passwords...
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Nasa Explores Network to Sustain Large Data Dumps, Space Travel
NASA is studying what technology will be needed after 2022 in order to support future space communication and navigation.
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Tim Berners-Lee on the Making of New Worlds
Tim Berners-Lee's keynote address at the SXSW Interactive Conference emphasized the need to fight for an open Internet.
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Nasa Rover Finds Conditions Once Suited For Ancient Life on Mars
An analysis of a rock sample collected by NASA's Curiosity rover shows ancient Mars could have supported living microbes.
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Rethinking Objects and Form Are Key to 3D Printing Revolution
3D printing has already changed the game for manufacturing specialized products such as medical devices but the real revolution will come when designers start to...
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Hagel to Order Review of Drone Medal Precedence
New Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel has halted production of a new controversial medal intended to honor drone pilots pending a review of its official rank above...
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Clues Suggest Malware Is Moving from Pcs to Mobile Devices
The fact that smartphones and tablets don't need antivirus software or regular software updates is a major reason for their popularity.
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Improving Electronics by Solving Nearly Century-Old Problem
Research into low-frequency electronic 1/f noise ("pink noise") could lead to a continued downscaling of conventional electronic devices.
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Students Develop Secure New Procedure For Online Banking
Researchers working with a financial IT solutions firm have developed a process that makes online banking more secure.
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Kim Dotcom Is the Anti-Zuckerberg: Share Nothing, Encrypt Everything, Be Happy
Appearing like a retro-futuristic apparition, digitally transmitted through pneumatic tubes from a future that was but will never be, the disembodied head of Kim...
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Curiosity Rover's Recovery Moving Forward
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity continues to move forward with assessment and recovery from a memory glitch that affected the rover's A-side computer.
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Skype's Been Hijacked in China, and Microsoft Is O.k. With It
Jeffrey Knockel is an unlikely candidate to expose the inner workings of Skype's role in China’s online surveillance apparatus.
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