Software
Microsoft hackers tied to a massive intrusion of dozens of U.S. government agencies and private companies sneaked further into its systems than previously thought, although the intrusion doesn't appear to have caused any ...
Jan 1, 2021
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Security
Is the antivirus program running on your computer really making your computers safer to use, say, for online banking? Is the parental control software you bought to keep your 13-year-old off porn sites downgrading the overall ...
May 4, 2016
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Software
Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a software toolkit that allows users to test the hardware security of Apple devices. During their proof-of-concept demonstration, the research team identified ...
Sep 13, 2021
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Software
Whenever you buy something on Amazon, your customer data is automatically updated and stored on thousands of virtual machines in the cloud. For businesses like Amazon, ensuring the safety and security of the data of its millions ...
May 25, 2021
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Machine learning & AI
With a brief glance at a single face, emerging facial recognition software can now categorize the gender of many men and women with remarkable accuracy.
Oct 29, 2019
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Software
Researchers at a company called Bleeping Computer have exposed another security flaw with the conferencing application Zoom—one that allows hackers to steal user passwords. The vulnerability in the software application ...
Software
Open source software—software that is freely distributed, along with its source code, so that copies, additions, or modifications can be readily made —is "everywhere," to quote the 2023 Open Source Security and Risk Analysis ...
Dec 1, 2023
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Software
Software bugs have been a concern for programmers for nearly 75 years since the day programmer Grace Murray Hopper reported the cause of an error in an early Harvard Mark II computer: a moth stuck between relay contacts. ...
Hardware
William Shakespeare might have been talking about Apple's recently released M1 chip via his prose in A Midnight Summer's Dream: "And though she be but little, she is fierce."
Jun 13, 2022
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Internet
A team of researchers at Mandiant has found a security vulnerability in IoT devices that use the ThroughTek "Kalay" network. Parent company Fireeye has published a blog account of the work done by the team that discovered ...
