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New York City Takes Aim at AI
The Big Apple fields an action plan for artificial intelligence.
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Preventing Smart-Phone Armageddon
Attacks against smartphones are likely to proliferate because of their growing ubiquity and the sensitive information they carry. However, researchers believe...
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What Does 'p vs. Np' Mean For the Rest of Us?
A proposed "proof" is probably a bust—but even failed attempts can advance computer science.
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Mobile Flaw Could Cloak Clicks
Stanford University researchers have found that mobile websites are extremely vulnerable to attacks from malicious sites using a technique known as tapjacking,...
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A Sidewalk Disappearing Act
Automatically removing people from street-level imagery could help prevent privacy complaints.
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Wireless Car Sensors Vulnerable to Hackers
Hackers could "hijack" the wireless pressure sensors built into many cars' tires, researchers have found. Criminals might then track a vehicle or force its electronic...
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Wikileaks Backlash Could Mean Less Data For Soldiers
Information shared with troops may be restricted.
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Hacking the Smart Grid
The hurried deployment of smart-grid technology could leave critical infrastructure and private homes vulnerable to hackers. Security experts at the Black Hat...
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The Hunt For the Wikileaks Whistle-Blower
Attorney General Eric Holder's new probe into Wikileaks's posting of 91,000 war documents will likely find that tracing the path of the documents back through the...
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So Many Bugs, So Little Time
Tools that find serious bugs automatically could lead to safer, more stable software.
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Passwords that Are Simple
Researchers at Microsoft have come up with a way to create easy-to-remember passwords without making a system more vulnerable to hackers.
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Nanoscale Random Number Circuit to Secure Future Chips
Intel engineers have created computer processors with circuits capable of random behavior, a development that could lead to secure cryptography keys.
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Computing with Secrets, but Keeping them Safe
A novel technique could see future Web services work with sensitive data without ever being able to read it. Several implementations of a mathematical proof unveiled...
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New Cyber Chief Outlines Strategy
Security experts said this week that they were cheered by calls from General Keith Alexander, head of the new U.S. Cyber Command, for global rules of engagement...
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Open-Source Could Mean an Open Door For Hackers
The ability to access the code of open-source applications may give attackers an edge in developing exploits for the software, according to a paper analyzing two...
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Mobile Data: A Gold Mine For Telcos
Cell phone companies are finding that they're sitting on a gold mine--in the form of the call records of their subscribers.
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Commercial Quantum Cryptography System Hacked
Physicists have mounted the first successful attack of its kind on a commercial quantum cryptography system.
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Physicists se Location to Guarantee Security of Quantum Messages
UCLA researchers have developed a type of quantum cryptography, which guarantees that only a person at a certain location can read an encrypted message.
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How Isps Could Combat Botnets
Convincing Internet service providers to pinpoint infected computers on their networks could eliminate the lion's share of zombie computers responsible for churning...
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