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When Is a Cyberattack an Act of War?
On the night of Oct. 11, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta stood inside the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum, housed in a former aircraft carrier moored at a New...
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The 'copycat' War: Iran Strikes Back
The growing evidence that Iran was behind a number of recent cyber attacks against Western and Arab institutions has raised concerns in many quarters about how...
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.s. Looks to Replace Human Surveillance with Computers
Computer software programmed to detect and report illicit behavior could eventually replace the fallible humans who monitor surveillance cameras.
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A Spy-Gear Arms Race Transforms Modern Divorce
Danny Lee Hormann suspected his wife was having an affair.
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Cybercrime: Mobile Changes Everything—and No One's Safe
The FBI recently put out a mobile malware alert, providing us with a sobering reminder of this "evil software" for phones and tablets.
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Google's Street View Goes Into the Wild
Google's Street View maps are headed into the backcountry. Earlier this week, two teams from Google strapped on sophisticated backpacks jammed with cameras, gyroscopes...
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In Mobile World, Tech Giants Scramble to Get p to Speed
Intel made its fortune on the chips that power personal computers, and Microsoft on the software that goes inside. Google’s secret sauce is that it finds what you...
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Control Without Controllers
Disney's Touché project could transform every conductive surface into a touch-control surface.
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On the Digital Trail
Forensics experts increasingly use data from digital devices to solve crimes, fight lawsuits, and unravel accidents.
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'live-Fire' Cyberwar-In-A-Box Tests Mettle of Military, It Pros
In August, a collection of military, government, and nongovernmental humanitarian organizations from 22 countries in the Pacific gathered in Singapore for Pacific...
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Zero-Day Attacks Are Meaner, More Rampant Than We Ever Thought
Computer attacks that target undisclosed vulnerabilities are more common and last longer than many security researchers previously thought. The finding comes from...
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Devices Go Nose to Nose With Bomb-Sniffer Dogs
Denis Spitzer wants to beat dogs at their own game.
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Ftc Offers $50,000 to Robocall Killers
The Federal Trade Commission is offering a cash reward of $50,000 to whoever develops a solution to block robotic calling on both landlines and mobiles.
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Science in an Election Year
More than a dozen science and engineering organizations worked with ScienceDebate.org to draft 14 top science questions to ask the two main presidential candidates...
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Computer Viruses Are 'rampant' on Medical Devices in Hospitals
Computerized hospital equipment is increasingly vulnerable to malware infections, according to participants in a recent government panel. These infections can clog...
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Who Controls the Internet?
Have you ever noticed that wherever you are in the world, every telephone keypad looks the same? Or wondered why satellites don't crash into each other? Or why...
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Report Sees Decline in Voting Glitches ... but Vote-By-Mail Sparks Concern
The good news about voting technologyis that the upgrades put into place since the controversial 2000 presidential election have made ballot tallies twice as accurate...
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Craig Venter Imagines a World with Printable Life Forms
Craig Venter imagines a future where you can download software, print a vaccine, inject it, and presto! Contagion averted.
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Paging Dr. Watson: Artificial Intelligence As a Prescription For Health Care
Everyone agrees health care in the United States is a colossal mess, and IBM is betting that artificially intelligent supercomputers are just what the doctor ordered...
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