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The One Big Question About Rsa and Its Relationship With the Nsa
Last week, the Internet security world was jolted by a Reuters report detailing a secret $10 million payment to the security company RSA from the National Security...
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Stanford Researchers: It Is Trivially Easy to Match Metadata to Real People
In defending the NSA's telephony metadata collection efforts, government officials have repeatedly resorted to one seemingly significant detail: This is just metadata—numbers...
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Increase Cybersecurity Workforce, Government rged
The International Internet System Security Certification Consortium is suggesting ways to increase the number of candidates for open federal cybersecurity positions...
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The Predictive Power of Big Data
Right now, the average person's data footprint—the annual amount of data produced worldwide, per capita—is just a little short of one terabyte.
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Edward Snowden, After Months of Nsa Rvelations, Says His Mission's Accomplished
The familiar voice on the hotel room phone did not waste words.
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Into the Bitcoin Mines
On the flat lava plain of Reykjanesbaer, Iceland, near the Arctic Circle, you can find the mines of Bitcoin.
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Research Trio Crack Rsa Encryption Keys By Listening to Computer Noise
It is possible to crack 4,096-bit RSA encryption keys by using a microphone to listen to high-pitched noises generated by internal computer components.
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French Team Invents Faster Code-Breaking Algorithm
New method can crack certain cryptosystems far faster than earlier alternatives.
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'Peace Technologies' Enable Eyewitness Reporting When Disasters Strike
Ushahidi — or "testimony" in Swahili — has played a central role in coordinating responses to crises around the globe.
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Outdated Magnetic Strips: How U.s. Credit Card Security Lags
Criminals may have stolen information from 40 million credit and debit cards used at Target.
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Computers Can Be Hacked Using High-Frequency Sound
Using the microphones and speakers that come standard in many of today's laptop computers and mobile devices, hackers can secretly transmit and receive data using...
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Cobol Still Integral to Government Systems
Many of the U.S. government's older mission-critical systems continue to run on a programming language developed in 1959.
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Bots Now 'account For 61 Percent of Web Traffic'
Nearly 62 percent of all website traffic is currently produced by automated software tools, according to an Incapsula study.
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The Geeks on the Front Lines
Inside a darkened conference room in the Miami Beach Holiday Inn, America's most badass hackers are going to war—working their laptops between swigs of Bawls energy...
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Gov’t Review Panel Suggests NSA Stop Holding Massive Phone Database
The panel set up by President Barack Obama to review widespread National Security Agency surveillance has produced a report in remarkably short order, and it contains...
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Bitcoin Collides With Government Concerns
If Bitcoin is a bubble, as its critics contend, it is showing signs of deflation.
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Judge: Nsa’s Collecting of Phone Records Is Probably Unconstitutional
A district court judge has ruled the U.S. National Security Agency's daily collection of virtually all Americans' phone records is almost certainly unconstitutional...
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Google Glass Update Lets Users Wink and Take Photos
Google has introduced a new feature to its Google Glass, which allows users to take a photo with a "wink of the eye."
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4 Reasons Why Apple's Ibeacon Is About to Disrupt Interaction Design
You step inside Walmart and your shopping list is transformed into a personalized map, showing you the deals that'll appeal to you most.
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