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Eu Funding 'orwellian' AI Plan to Monitor Public For 'abnormal Behavior'
The European Union-funded Project Indect is developing software that monitors and processes information collected from Web sites, discussion forums, file servers...
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Google Acquires Recaptcha
ReCAPTCHA Inc., a spin-off of Carnegie Mellon University's Computer Science Department, has been acquired by Google Inc. The Pittsburgh company developed online...
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Harris Corp. Funds Tech Internet Pop-p Security Research
Harris Corp. will fund a Florida Institute of Technology (FIT) study on the decisions people make when they see pop-up messages while Internet browsing. Researchers...
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.s. Air Force Funds Super-Fast, Secure Computing
The U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) is supporting University of Michigan (UM) physicists' development of components for quantum computers that...
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Fly-By-Wireless Set For Take-Off
Aircraft manufacturers eager to reduce the weight of planes are looking into the replacement of copper wiring with wireless networks. Imbuing fly-by-wireless networks...
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Domain-Name Abuse Proliferates; Rogue Registrars Turn a Blind Eye
Domain name abuse continues to be a serious problem, which is too often proliferated by some registrars who are willing to overlook phony registration information...
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Chinese Schools Quietly Discard Controversial Web Filter
Schools in Beijing are quietly removing the Green Dam filter, which was required for all school computers in July, due to complaints over problems with the software...
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On the Road to Secure Car-to-Car Communications
A European research project works out how to keep car-to-car data transmissions private and secure from malicious hackers.
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Stimulus Funds to Further Cyber Security Research
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 will fund a project designed to protect the privacy and security of business information systems and data centers...
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Machines Still Way Behind Humans in Image Recognition
Computers can copy many aspects of human behavior, but they don't yet possess our ability to recognize distorted images, says a team of researchers. "Our goal is...
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Still Trying to Crack Nazi Enigma Messages
Enigma@home is attempting to break one of three original messages generated by the Enigma machine, which was intercepted by the Allies in 1942. The Enigma M4 machine...
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Dhs Report: It Sector Is Resilient Against Serious Cyberattacks
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security recently released a report that outlines several scenarios in which attacks against vital elements of the U.S.'s IT infrastructure...
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Open Source Dna
Tel Aviv University professor Eran Halperin and researchers from the University of California, Berkeley have developed a mathematical formula that can be used to...
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Filtering Network Attacks With a 'netflix' Method
University of California, Irvine (UC Irvine) researchers have developed a new method for blacklisting spam, distributed denial-of-service attacks, worms, and other...
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Lawmakers Strike New Tone With Proposed Cybersecurity Bill
The second draft of a U.S. Senate cybersecurity bill scales back language that would give the president the ability to shut down the Internet in an emergency....
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Budget, Personnel Cutbacks Could Be a Cause of It Outages
When eBay Inc.'s PayPal unit suffered a worldwide outage early last month, Sailrite Enterprises Inc., a sailing supply company based in Churubusco, Ind., lost its...
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Dhs Cybersecurity Chiefs Speak Out
As federal agencies continue to brainstorm ways to effectively oversee cybersecurity, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is increasing its foothold...
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Nsf Funds CM Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in Privacy and Security
Carnegie Mellon University has received a five-year, $3 million grant from the National Science Foundation to launch a Ph.D. program in usable privacy and security...
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Defying Experts, Rogue Computer Code Still Lurks
Like a ghost ship, a rogue software program that glided onto the Internet last November has confounded the efforts of top security experts to eradicate the program...
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