Disagreement may be a way to make online content spread faster, further
Disagreement seems to spread online posts faster and further than agreement, according to a new study from the University of Central Florida.
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Cryptographic vulnerabilities on popular Telegram messaging platform
Researchers from Royal Holloway, University of London are part of a team who have completed a substantial security analysis of the encryption protocol used by the popular messaging platform, Telegram, with over half a billion ...
Jul 16, 2021
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Trump hacker and friends on a mission to fix the internet
When a massive cyberattack took out everything from Swedish supermarkets to New Zealand kindergartens this month, a group of Dutch ethical hackers breathed a collective sigh of frustration. They had been so close to stopping ...
Jul 16, 2021
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Wildfire detection: Drones paired with ground-based sensors
The twin technologies of unmanned aerial vehicles and wireless sensors could be the ideal combination to counter forest fires.
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Team uncovers the danger caused by subdomains
The internet is full of dangers: Sensitive data can be leaked, malicious websites can allow hackers to access private computers. The Security & Privacy Research Unit at TU Wien in collaboration with Ca' Foscari University ...
Jun 28, 2021
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World Wide Web source code is latest NFT for sale
Tim Berners-Lee's source code for the World Wide Web is the latest non-fungible token (NFT) to go up for sale.
Jun 25, 2021
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Largest password data breach in history has been leaked online
Back in 2009, threat actors hacked into the website servers of social app RockYou, accessing over 32 million user passwords stored in plaintext. Now, in what appears to be the largest data breach in history, attackers have ...
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Google's Quic transmission protocol speeds up the Internet's flagship TCP
On the horizon for eight years now, Google's planned replacement for Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), Quic, seems to be finally underway. In fact, the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) published Quic as a standard ...
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Mass scale manipulation of Twitter Trends discovered
New EPFL research has found that almost half of local Twitter trending topics in Turkey are fake, a scale of manipulation previously unheard of. It also proves for the first time that many trends are created solely by bots ...
Jun 2, 2021
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A new model enables the recreation of the family tree of complex networks
In a new study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a research team of the Institute of Complex Systems of the University of Barcelona (UBICS) analyzed the time evolution of real complex networks ...
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