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.s. Outgunned in Hacker War
The Federal Bureau of Investigation's top cyber cop offered a grim appraisal of the nation's efforts to keep computer hackers from plundering corporate data networks...
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Open Source Code Libraries Seen as Rife With Vulnerabilities
Open source code libraries have a significant number of security vulnerabilities, according to an Aspect Security study that analyzed 113 million software downloads...
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Richard Clarke on Who Was Behind the Stuxnet Attack
The story Richard Clarke spins has all the suspense of a postmodern geopolitical thriller.
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Eye-Tracking Computers Will Read Your Thoughts
Consider, for a moment, the following list: Republican. Abortion. Democrat. Future. Afghanistan. Health care. Same-sex marriage.
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Online Attribution of the French Killer
Mohammed Merah, the culprit of the killing of 7 people in France last week, was found using a mix of traditional and online forensics.
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Global Manhunt Will Leverage Social Media to Find 'suspects'
If you had to track down fugitives hidden in five cities around the world, would one day and a $5,000 reward be enough to succeed?
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Lessons About Rsa Key Security
Purdue University professor Eugene Spafford says a recently published paper that called into question the security of RSA public-private keys has lessons for security...
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Fbi Still Struggling With Supreme Court's Gps Ruling
Earlier this year, the Supreme Court said police had overstepped their legal authority by planting a GPS tracker on the car of a suspected drug dealer without getting...
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The Spanish Link in Cracking the Enigma Code
A pair of rare Enigma machines used in the Spanish Civil War have been given to the head of GCHQ, Britain's communications intelligence agency.
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Duqu Mystery Language Solved With the Help of Crowdsourcing
Kaspersky Lab researchers have determined the programming language used to generate the code for the DuQu virus' communications functions.
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After Rutgers Spycam Case, niversities Grapple With Privacy Online
The conviction of Dharun Ravi in the Rutgers webcam spying trial last week raises difficult questions for universities when it comes to protecting students online...
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The Soul of the New Hacktivist
In 1988, a Cornell graduate student, Robert Tappan Morris, let loose a computer worm on the fledgling version of the Internet. He said it was meant to be an experiment...
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Hacktivists Out-Stole Cybercriminals in 2011
Just two years ago, cybercriminal gangs were behind record-breaking data breaches that resulted in the theft of millions of customer records. But the year 2011...
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Carnegie Mellon Mobile App Secures Communications
Carnegie Mellon University researchers have developed SafeSlinger, a mobile application that helps users establish trusted relationships with others for spur-of...
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Preserving Digital Data
Scientific data is expanding at an unprecedented rate. While new tools are helping preserve this data, funding must be increased and policy coordination needs improvement...
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Open For Business
Should academic articles be available for free on the Web?
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.s. Accelerating Cyberweapon Research
Former and current U.S. officials say the Pentagon is ramping up projects to develop next-generation cyberweapons that can disrupt enemy military networks even...
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Study: Including Ads in Mobile Apps Poses Privacy, Security Risks
North Carolina State University researchers recently conducted a study on the privacy and security risks associated with mobile application advertisements, and...
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The NSA Is Building the Country's Biggest Spy Center (Watch What You Say)
The spring air in the small, sand-dusted town has a soft haze to it, and clumps of green-gray sagebrush rustle in the breeze.
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