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Ornl Has Key Role in Doe Cybersecurity For Energy Effort
With the transition to a smart grid comes new opportunities for hackers, but researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory are working...
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Ban Naughty Countries From the Net: Former Intelligence Chief
Countries in Eastern Europe and Africa that harbor cyber criminals should be locked out of the global Internet until their governments do something to reduce...
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Sick PCs Should Be Banned From the Net Says Microsoft
Microsoft researcher Scott Charney recently presented an Internet security proposal that requires users to present a "health certificate" to prove that their PCs...
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Android Invasion
How a tiny piece of software created by a few Google engineers is ushering in the mobile revolution and reshaping the fortunes of the world's biggest tech companies...
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Now Your App Knows Where You Are
Geolocation analytics could help companies to improve their apps—and make more money from them.
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Georgia Tech Releases Cyber Threats Forecast for 2011
The Georgia Tech Information Security Center (GTISC) has released the GTISC Emerging Cyber Threats Report for 2011, outlining the top three areas of security risk...
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Mit Researchers Tout Network Intrusion Recovery System
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers are developing RETRO, a system designed to make it easier for organizations to recover from security breaches. ...
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Researchers Argue For Smarter Traffic Lights
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich's Dirk Helbing and Dresden University of Technology's Stefan Lammer have proposed using a combination of sensing technology...
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Blade Software Eliminates 'drive-By Downloads' from Malicious Websites
Researchers have developed a new tool that eliminates so-called 'drive-by download' threats. BLADE is browser-independent and when tested, it blocked all drive-by...
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Power Hackers: The U.s. Smart Grid Is Shaping Up to Be Dangerously Insecure
Achieving greater efficiency and control of the electricity grid requires hooking almost every aspect of it up to the Internet, making it more vulnerable to cyber...
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Tapping the Powers of Persuasion
B.J. Fogg's lab at Stanford focuses on the ways technology can influence behavior.
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Digital 'fingerprints' to Stop Phone Phishing Scams
Phishing scams are making the leap from email to the world's voice systems, and a team of researchers in the Georgia Tech College of Computing has found a way to...
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Stuxnet: Fact vs. Theory
The Stuxnet worm has taken the computer security world by storm, inspiring talk of a government-sponsored cyberwar, and of a software program laden with obscure...
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Gtri Creates Cyber Technology and Information Security Laboratory
The Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) has created a new Cyber Technology and Information Security Laboratory to apply GTRI's broad expertise and systems engineering...
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Eu Seeks to Boost Defenses Against Cyber Attacks
The European Commission has made several proposals designed to counter large-scale cyberattacks that could paralyze the computer networks of European Union nations...
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Professor Wendy Hall Speaks
Dame Wendy Hall of the University of Southampton says she is interested in "what makes the Web what it is, how it evolves and will evolve, what are the scenarios...
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One Program to Watch Them All: DARPA
The Pentagon’s surveillance net is massive. But it was holes and seams. Spy drone videos and communications intercepts may be aimed at the same target. Analysts...
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Signing Made Easy
From video games to cell phone apps, making sign language easier to learn Put on the gloves. Turn on the camera and... action!
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Would Wiretapping Laws Spell the End of Quantum Encryption?
A new effort to ensure that the government can gain back-door access to encrypted messages could thwart one of the most promising applications of physics for...
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