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Microsoft nleashes Bug Bounty Program--for Betas, Too
Microsoft has announced plans to launch three bug bounty programs designed to eliminate security vulnerabilities in its software.
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Israel Launches Cyber Warfare Training Program
Israel is recruiting top students for a new cyberwarfare training program. The program shows how Israel is advancing in the field of cybernetics to develop "high...
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Osama Bin Laden Didn't Use Encryption: 17 Documents Released
It appears that Osama bin Laden didn’t encrypt any of his computer files. If he had, U.S. authorities probably wouldn’t have been able to do much after confiscating...
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Inside Stuxnet: Researcher Drops New Clues About Origin of Worm
The mysterious Stuxnet worm took center stage at the Virus Bulletin 2010 conference here with a prominent security researcher dropping a raw hint that Israel may...
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ITU Head: Cyberwar Could Be 'Worse Than Tsunami'
There needs to be a global cybersecurity peace treaty to avert the threat of international cyberwar, whose effects would be more devastating than a tsunami, says...
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Security Key to Unlocking Cloud Potential
The issue of security is holding back its full potential of cloud computing. This was the gist of the keynote message presented Tuesday (March 2) by Art Coviello...
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Software Liability Law Could Divide Open Source
The European Commission has proposed that software companies should be held liable for the security and efficiency of their products. Ovum's David Mitchell says...
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Chink in Encryption Armor Discovered
Researchers from the Information Security Group (ISG) at Royal Holloway, University of London have discovered an underlying flaw in the OpenSSH encryption protocol...
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Crypto Pioneers Differ on Cloud-Computing Risks
A group of pioneers in the security field, whose work in encryption is used to protect Internet data and communications every day, spoke recently about the state...
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