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Air Traffic System Vulnerable to Cyber Attack
Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) technology uses unencrypted global positioning system signals to broadcast a plane's position to networks. The...
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Researchers Find Way to Measure Effect of Wi-Fi Attacks
North Carolina State University researchers have developed a way to measure how badly a Wi-Fi network would be disrupted by different kinds of attacks.
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Can Brain Research Keep S Safe?
Human conflict is often associated with the emergence of a new science or technology. The Civil War's Gatling gun changed battlefield tactics and led to modern...
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New Emotion Detector Sees When We're Lying
A sophisticated new camera system can detect lies just by watching our faces as we talk, experts say. The computerized system uses a simple video camera, a high...
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Bike Crash Wiped Details; Gps Data Filled Them In
After racing and biking back roads on the San Francisco Peninsula for almost half a century without serious incident, on July 3 I crashed while riding downhill...
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Hacker Rattles Security Circles
He claims to be 21 years old, a student of software engineering in Tehran who reveres Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and despises dissidents in his country.
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Diginotar Ssl Certificate Hack Amounts to Cyberwar, Says Expert
The Dutch government says hackers who broke into a web security firm in the Netherlands last month issued hundreds of bogus security certificates that could be...
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Security and Surveillance Pervades Post-9/11 New York City
From building-blocking bollards to millimeter-wave scanners, the September 11 terrorist attacks have led to significant changes in security techniques and technology...
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Ten Years After 9/11, Cyber Attacks Pose National Threat, Committee Says
Catastrophic cyberattacks are a very real threat to U.S. security, according to a study from the Bipartisan Policy Center's National Security Preparedness Group...
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Brain-Reading Devices Could Kill Off Keyboard
The QWERTY keyboard has dominated computer typing for more than 40 years, but a new breakthrough that translates human thought into digital text may spell the...
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The Next Wave of Botnets Could Descend from the Skies
The buzz starts low and quickly gets louder as a toy quadricopter flies in low over the buildings. It might look like flight enthusiasts having fun, but it could...
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When Cookies Leak Data
We all know that cookies need to be handled with care, and new research indicates that the Google search cookie has particular problems.
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The Calm Before the Storm
Revelations of wholesale electronic fraud and massive data heists have become weekly, even daily affairs.
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Feds, Eff Clash in Appeals Court Hearing on Nsa Spying
A three-judge federal appeals court grilled government and civil rights lawyers while entertaining arguments here Wednesday concerning dozens of dismissed lawsuits...
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Dumping Friends on Facebook Helps Make You Secure
Arizona State University researcher Pritam Gundecha has developed a method for determining which Facebook friends are most likely to leak private information.
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Csi: Tech to Automatically Identify the Bad Guy
Researchers hope a new system could automatically scan the hours of CCTV footage police have to comb through to identify suspects without invading privacy.
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Technology Is Our Friend... Except When It Isn't
The technology in question starts with "gigapixel" photography. Gigapixel photos are giant panoramas that themselves consist of hundreds of component mega-pixel...
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Image Searches 'poisoned' By Cybercriminals
More than 113 million Internet users were redirected to malicious pages due to search engine poisoning in May 2011, according to Trend Micro.
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