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Despite Pwn2own 2014 Hacks, Application Sandboxing Still Critical
Participants and organizers of the recent CanSecWest security conference's Pwn2Own hacking contest say popular software is increasingly more secure.
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Are Smart Homes Intelligent Enough To Keep Out Hackers?
How hack-resistant are the connected systems in smart homes?
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N.S.A. Breached Chinese Servers Seen as Security Threat
American officials have long considered Huawei, the Chinese telecommunications giant, a security threat, blocking it from business deals in the United States for...
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Tor sage in Turkey Surges During Twitter Ban
Since Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan implemented a ban on Twitter late last week, Tor usage in the country has surged—with connections nearly doubling...
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Revelations of N.s.a. Spying Cost .s. Tech Companies
Microsoft has lost customers, including the government of Brazil.
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Spinoffs from Spyland
It takes more than a little tradecraft to spin off a startup from the National Security Agency.
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In Sickness and in Health: How Big Data Watches Over You
There are few places where you would less expect to find answers about the digital age than Iquitos, Peru.
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Researchers Hope to Secure Development of Mobile Apps With Faster Code Scans
Fraunhofer Institute researchers are developing three new tools to evaluate or enhance the security of mobile apps.
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Facebook Creates Software That Matches Faces Almost as Well as You Do
Asked whether two unfamiliar photos of faces show the same person, a human being will get it right 97.53 percent of the time.
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Stanford Students Show That Phone Record Surveillance Can Yield Vast Amounts of Information
The U.S. National Security Agency's telephone metadata program can yield details of the familial, political, professional, religious, and sexual associations of...
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Careers in Statistics Evolve and Expand
Workers with statistics backgrounds have long been in healthy demand for academic, actuarial, pharmaceutical, or government jobs.
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The Data Brokers: Selling Your Personal Information
Over the past six months or so, a huge amount of attention has been paid to government snooping, and the bulk collection and storage of vast amounts of raw data...
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All Hacking Eyes on the Prize Money at Cansecwest
When it comes to hacking, it turns out that greed really is good.
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Stanford Lab Yields New Privacy-Based Social Network
The new Omlet social network allows users complete control over their personal data.
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AI Researcher Says Amoral Robots Pose a Danger to Humanity
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute professor Selmer Bringsjord says understanding morality is increasingly important as robots become smarter and more autonomous. ...
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Collecting Digital User Data Without Invading Privacy
Privada is a new a cryptographic method that makes it possible to simultaneously collect data and protect the privacy of the user.
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Stanford Students Show Phone Record Surveillance Can Yield Vast Amounts of Information
The National Security Agency's mass surveillance of telephone metadata could yield detailed information about the private lives of individuals far beyond what the...
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Gps Tech Built to Find Missing Aircraft Not Always Used
Aviation experts have cited multiple possible reasons for the problems in the multi-country effort to locate the Malaysia Airlines jetliner that dropped off the...
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Cyberattacks Could Paralyze .s., Former Defense Chief Warns
Former U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta said a large-scale cyberattack against U.S. infrastructure is "the most serious threat in the 21st century."
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