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EFF Proposes New Method to Strengthen Public Key Infrastructure
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has proposed an extension to the current Secure Sockets Layer chain of trust that aims to improve the security of HTTPS and other...
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Researchers Defeat CAPTCHA on Popular Web Sites
Stanford University researchers have developed an automated tool that can decipher Completely Automated Public Turing tests to tell Computers and Humans Apart (CAPTCHAs)...
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U.s., Russia Slowly Improve Cybersecurity Cooperation
Cooperation between the United States and Russia on cybersecurity issues is gradually improving, as indicated by increasing interaction between experts at events...
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European Security Group Issues Warning on HTML5
New standards under development as part of HTML5 neglect important security issues, according to a European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) report...
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U.s. Hails Progress With Russia on Cybersecurity
The United States and Russia are collaborating to lower the chances of a cybersecurity incident that could potentially harm relations between the two nations, according...
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Google Builds Developer Tool to Flag Web App Vulnerabilities
Google has released DOM Snitch, an experimental extension for its Chrome browser that enables developers to scan Web applications and flag code that could be exploited...
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Planetlab Creates a More Advanced Sudo
A new program from Princeton University stands to give data center administrators far greater control over what end users can and cannot access on a computer.
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China Demands New Pcs Have Web Site-Blocking Software
China will require that Web filtering software be included with all computers sold in the country, another step up in its efforts to control pornography and other...
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Researchers Sniff Pc Keyboard Strokes From Thin Air
Research teams from the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne in Switzerland and Inverse Path say they have discovered new techniques to read what a person is...
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Government Cyberattacks Militarize the Web
Distributed denial of service (DDOS) attacks are now being used by governments as another way to counter opposition, warns Arbor Networks senior security researcher...
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