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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Amassing a Small Army Against a Growing Enemy
Boston University researchers have developed software aimed at identifying unwanted Internet traffic, which would enable network providers to stop botnets from...
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How High-Frequency Trading Is Changing Wall Street
On May 6, 2010, the Dow Jones industrial average dropped hundreds of points in a matter of minutes—and then recovered moments later.
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Senate to Try Again on Controversial Antipiracy Bill
The U.S. Senate judiciary committee will renew its effort to pass the Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act this spring, which would give the government...
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Breaking Bottlenecks
A new algorithm enables much faster dissemination of information through self-organizing networks with a few scattered choke points.
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White House Calls For Internet Identity Ecosystem to Protect Online Users
The Obama administration has announced a plan to establish an Internet identity ecosystem that will lower the incidence of fraud and identity theft while making...
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Algorithms Take Control of Wall Street
Last spring, Dow Jones launched a new service called Lexicon, which sends real-time financial news to professional investors. This in itself is not surprising...
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Why Are Health Data Leaking Online? Bad Software, Study Says
A recent Dartmouth College study found that sensitive health care data is being leaked online through peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing services. In addition, the...
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Hackers Find New Way to Cheat on Wall Street
High-frequency trading networks, which complete stock market transactions in microseconds, are vulnerable to manipulation by hackers who can inject tiny amounts...
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The New Speed of Money, Reshaping Markets
A substantial part of all stock trading in the United States takes place in a warehouse in a nondescript business park just off the New Jersey Turnpike.
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And Then There Were Five: Nist Names Sha-3 Crypto Competition Finalists
Out of the original 64, there now are five candidates left in the ongoing multi-year competition overseen by NIST to create the next 'hash' algorithm to protect...
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Car Theft by Antenna
A method for breaking into and stealing cars that have keyless entry and starting systems has been found by ETH Zurich researchers, who were able to gain entry...
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Network Defense Gone Wrong
Many companies use content-delivery networks as a defense against distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, but Michael Rabinovich of Case Western Reserve University...
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Utah's $1.5 Billion Cyber-Security Center Under Way
Today's groundbreaking for a $1.5 billion National Security Agency data center is being billed as important in the short term for construction jobs and important...
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'sms of Death' Could Crash Many Mobile Phones
Low-end mobile phones are vulnerable to hackers using short message service (SMS) communications, according to research presented at a recent conference in Germany...
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Nist Publications Recommend Organization-Wide It Security Risk Management
Two new draft publications from NIST provide the groundwork for a three-tiered risk-management approach that encompasses computer security risk planning from the...
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Beyond Surveillance: Darpa Wants a Thinking Camera
It’s tough being an imagery analyst for the U.S. military: you’re drowning in pictures and drone video, with more pouring in endlessly from the tons of sensors...
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IPv6 Guide for Secure Deployment of Next-Generation Internet Protocol
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have issued a guide for managers, network engineers, transition teams and others to help them...
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The American Wikileaks Hacker
Jacob Appelbaum fights repressive regimes around the world—including his own.
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Computers That See You and Keep Watch Over You
Hundreds of correctional officers from prisons across America descended last spring on a shuttered penitentiary in West Virginia for annual training exercises...
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