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Listening In: The Navy Is Tracking Ocean Sounds Collected By Scientists
In a retired shore station for transpacific communications cables on the western coast of Vancouver Island sits a military computer in a padlocked cage.
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New Era in Safety When Cars Talk to One Another
A driver moves along in traffic, the forward view blocked by a truck or a bend in the road. Suddenly, up ahead, someone slams on the brake. Tires screech.
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Technology Can Make Lawful Surveillance Both Open and Effective
New technology could enable law enforcement to identify people whose actions justify investigation and demonstrate probable cause via an authorized electronic...
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Cryptography Expert Says, 'pgp Encryption Is Fundamentally Broken, Time For Pgp to Die'
A Senior cryptography expert has claimed multiple issues with PGP email encryption—an open source end-to-end encryption to secure email.
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Pgp Is Fundamentally Broken, Says Crypto Expert
Johns Hopkins University professor Matthew Green says the PGP encryption protocol is badly out of date and fails to meet modern public key cryptography needs.
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Researchers Aim to Thwart Targeted Cyberattacks
Researchers are studying a series of sophisticated attacks via email against the World Uyghur Congress, a Chinese nongovernmental organization.
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Rutgers Researchers Show That How Fast You Drive Might Reveal Exactly Where You Are Going
Researchers say monitoring motorists' driving habits may disclose where motorists are driving, even in the absence of GPS or other location-sensing technology.
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Meet Monstermind, the Nsa Bot That Could Wage Cyberwar Autonomously
Whistleblower Edward Snowden claims the U.S. National Security Agency is developing an autonomous cyberdefense system.
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Vast Majority of Hackers Believe They're Above the Law—survey
When most hackers are infiltrating computer systems, the last thing on their mind is getting caught, according to new data.
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The Internet's Vulnerable Backbone
A criminal redirected the online activities of bitcoin mining groups and stole at least $83,000 worth in bitcoins over four months, according to a new report, which...
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The Best 'low-Tech' Spycraft Tricks
In the wake of Edward Snowden's revelations about the US National Security Agency’s activities around the globe, authorities in Russia and Germany declared they...
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The Most Wanted Man in the World
The message arrives on my "clean machine," a MacBook Air loaded only with a sophisticated encryption package.
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Do Quantum Computers Threaten Global Encryption Systems?
Make a mobile phone call and encryption is there to stop eavesdroppers listening in.
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'ambiguous' Warfare Buys Upgrade Time For Russia's Military
Unmarked Russian soldiers who seized Ukraine's Crimea region earlier this year gave every appearance of military professionals well equipped with modern body armor...
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As Data Overflows Online, Researchers Grapple With Ethics
Scholars are exhilarated by the prospect of tapping into the vast troves of personal data collected by Facebook, Google, Amazon, and a host of start-ups, which...
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Okcupid's Co-Founder on Experiments, Data Science and the Myth of the 'unicorn'
Christian Rudder, co-founder and president of the IAC/InterActiveCorp.'s OkCupid, caused a stir recently when he responded to Facebook's news feed controversy with...
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Seven Ways DARPA Is Trying to Kill the Password
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is funding research at institutions working on desktop and mobile authentication technologies.
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The Internet of Things Brings Far-Reaching Security Threats
U.S. Defense Advanced Research Project Agency program manager Randy Garrett warns the advent of the Internet of Things will create a large number of new threat...
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When Hackers Test For Flaws, They Might Earn Cash—or Threats
To hack or not to hack?
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