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Bbc Unveils Micro Bit Coding Device For Make It Digital Initiative
The BBC plans to offer a coding device to more than 1 million U.K. schoolchildren as part of its Make it Digital Initiative.
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DARPA to Pursue 'revolutionary' Privacy Tools
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is launching a program aimed at developing a system to keep personal and proprietary information private.
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Googlers' Epic Hack Exploits How Memory Leaks Electricity
Researchers have demonstrated they could bypass security protections to induce electromagnetic leakage in the dynamic random access memory of some laptops.
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Guaranteeing Online Anonymity
A new program can provide an accurate assessment of the level of online anonymity an individual user achieves.
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Pre-Crime Software Recruited to Track Gang of Thieves
They always choose the line at the bank farthest from CCTV—that's how the Felony Lane Gang got its name.
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Cybercriminals Are Misappropriating Businesses' Web Addresses
Cybercriminals targeting businesses are stealing more than customer passwords and credit-card numbers these days.
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Shortage of Security Pros Worsens
Cybersecurity job postings grew 74 percent from 2007 to 2013, more than twice the rate of all information technology jobs, according to a Burning Glass study.
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The CIA Campaign to Steal Apple's Secrets
New secret documents reveal a nearly 10-year effort by security researchers at Sandia National Laboratory to crack the security of Apple's iPhone and iPad mobile...
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Ftc Pits Humans Against Robocalls in New Contest
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is launching two contests asking the public to develop solutions for blocking, forwarding, and analyzing automated calls.
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The Real Star Wars: Air Force Heads to the Heavens For Weapons Guidance
The success of precision-guided bombs in 1991’s Gulf War was a revelation.
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What Is Privacy? New Research Reveals We May Need a New Definition
Rutgers University professor Vivek Singh has found that information taken from just four credit card transactions can uniquely identify a person.
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Time to Disconnect: Why the Sim Card Has Had Its Day
SIM cards used by mobile phones to connect to phone networks will soon be 25 years old, and have been found to be vulnerable.
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Engineering the Perfect Baby
If anyone had devised a way to create a genetically engineered baby, I figured George Church would know about it.
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China Says Tech Firms Have Nothing to Fear from Anti-Terror Law
China's proposed anti-terrorism law will not affect the legitimate interests of technology firms, a top Chinese spokeswoman said Wednesday after U.S. President ...
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'freak' Flaw Undermines Security For Apple and Google Users, Researchers Discover
Companies and government agencies are scrambling to correct a major security flaw revealed this week.
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Professor Lorrie Cranor Gives Lecture on Password Security
Carnegie Mellon University's Human-Computer Interaction Institute recently hosted a seminar on the study of password security led by CMU professor Lorrie Cranor...
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Chip Makers Push New Senses For Smartphones–mobile World
Smartphones are about to get smarter, chip makers say, exploiting technologies that recognize people, objects and sounds to boost security and take helpful actions...
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Qr Codes Engineered Into Cybersecurity Protection
University of Connecticut researchers want to use quick response codes to protect national security.
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