Security
Trouble in smartphone security land: There is a platform-agnostic intruder—it can tally up victims regardless of the hardware or software the victims rely on. Simjacker is the name of the exploit. The team who spotted it ...
Sep 15, 2019 weblog
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Internet
Google has announced that it is releasing the open-source version of a differential privacy library that helps power some of its own products.
Sep 08, 2019 weblog
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Computer Sciences
Safeguarding passwords, credit card numbers or cryptographic keys in computer programs will require less computational work in the future. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems in Kaiserslautern and ...
Sep 04, 2019
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Security
If you're in the market for an internet-connected garage door opener, doorbell, thermostat, security camera, yard irrigation system, slow cooker—or even a box of connected light bulbs—a new website can help you understand ...
Sep 03, 2019
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Consumer & Gadgets
Google security experts uncovered an "indiscriminate" hacking operation that targeted iPhones over a period of at least two years and used websites to implant malicious software to access photos, user locations and other ...
Aug 30, 2019
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Engineering
This week a collaborative effort among computer scientists and academics to safeguard data is winning attention and it has quantum computing written all over it.
Aug 29, 2019 weblog
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Internet
As proven by some recent extreme, controversial incidents, such as the Facebook and Cambridge Analytica scandal, social media can be a real goldmine for user information. In fact, most social researchers and analytics companies ...
Aug 27, 2019 feature
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Security
A few summers ago throngs of people began using the Pokemon Go app, the first mass-market augmented reality game, to collect virtual creatures hiding in the physical world.
Aug 20, 2019
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Security
For the uninitiated, the word Bitcoin summons up a mixed emotion of approach-avoidance. It teases curiosity to know more about this fascinating alternative to conventional currency and at the same triggers unease about its ...
Aug 20, 2019 weblog
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Consumer & Gadgets
Whether you're checking text messages on your smartwatch or sharing selfies with a friend at a concert, it's becoming easier and easier to send files and information between devices. But this connectivity may come at the ...
Aug 20, 2019
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