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Networked Networks Are Prone to Epic Failure
Networks that are resilient on their own become fragile and prone to catastrophic failure when connected, suggests a new study with troubling implications for tightly...
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Marketers Watch as Friends Interact Online
Birds of a feather flock together. Or, in the Internet age, a customer's friend is a potential customer. Embracing those truisms, some big marketers, including...
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Entangle Qubits for a True Random Number Machine
Pure randomness is surprisingly difficult to create, even if you draw on the inherent randomness of quantum mechanics. Now, though, a "true" random number generator...
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Pentagon Turns to 'softer' Sciences
By highlighting the limits of traditional military technology, the drawn-out conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan have spurred the U.S. defense department to shake...
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Steganography Discovery Could Help Data Thieves, But Also Improve Radar, Sonograms
The technology for instruments used to see through fog also could be used for optical steganography, according to a team of researchers at Princeton University. ...
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Keeping Medical Data Private
Researchers at Vanderbilt University have created an algorithm designed to protect the privacy of patients while maintaining researchers' ability to analyze vast...
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ncle Sam Wants You (to Fight Hackers)
A shortfall of cybersecurity professionals is on the horizon, with Boeing's Alan Greenberg warning that the U.S. public and private sectors will collectively need...
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'big Data' Can Create Big Issues
Tech firms are approaching the challenge of mining "big data"—immense repositories of information generated by industry and government—by using predictive analytics...
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Battling Botnets With An Awesome Os
Two University of Illinois at Chicago computer scientists have won a $1.15 million National Science Foundation grant to develop a new kind of computer operating...
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U.s. One Step Closer to Cyber Guards For Nation's Electric Grid
The bidding for a National Electric Sector Cyber Security Organization that would shield the U.S. electrical grid from cyberattacks was officially opened up by...
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After Google-China Dust-p, Cyberwar Emerges as a Threat
Recent cyberattacks against Google and other tech firms highlight concerns about adversaries' ability to launch a full-fledged cyberwar against the United States...
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Hackers Not Linked to China's Government, Researcher Says
China-based hackers who stole data on India's missile systems, private correspondence of the Dalai Lama and Canadian visa applications appear not to be linked...
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Glonass: Has Russia's Sat-Nav System Come of Age?
With the Glonass satellite-navigation constellation nearly complete, Russia's plan to wean itself off the US Global Positioning System (GPS) appears to be coming...
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Combing Medical Records For Research
When the stimulus bill passed last year--allocating $20 billion to help doctors and hospitals adopt electronic medical records (EMRs)--many scientists were excited...
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Researchers Trace Data Theft to Intruders in China
Canadian and United States computer security researchers have monitored the spying operation of a China-based computer espionage gang for the past eight months...
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Speedier Bug Catching
Engineers have developed new transistors that can locate hardware bugs in a fraction of the time it takes to perform normal debugging.
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Researchers Sound Alarm on Web App 'side Channel' Data Leaks
Researchers who have tested the security of popular online tax, health, investing, and search sites report that the Web applications are becoming more vulnerable...
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Security Researchers Hacked Iphone
The University of Luxembourg's Ralf-Philipp Weinmann and Zynamics' Vincenzo Iozzo chained existing code bits to compromise the iPhone during the PWN2OWN hacking...
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Playing It Safe With Two Networks
To protect itself from hackers, Cryptography Research runs two unconnected networks—one for sensitive data and core engineering work that is not connected to the...
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