News tagged with p2p
Botnets move P2P as centrally controlled zombie networks come under fire
(PhysOrg.com) -- Botnets, those networks of computers infected with bots (little pieces of code that allow a computer to be manipulated from an outside source) have increasingly of late come under attack by ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Apr 22, 2011 |
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Software improves p2p privacy by hiding in the crowd
Researchers at the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science at Northwestern University have identified a new "guilt-by-association" threat to privacy in peer-to-peer (P2P) systems that would enable an eavesdropper ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Apr 08, 2009 |
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Research study identifies who uploads the majority of the content to the P2P piracy networks
A study done at Carlos III University of Madrid (Spain) identifies and characterizes the users who upload contents on the main P2P piracy networks on Internet and points out the incentives that they find to ...
Jan 24, 2011 |
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P2P traffic control
Could a concept from information technology familiar to online file sharers be exploited to reduce road congestion and even traffic accidents? That is the question answered in the affirmative by researchers in California, ...
Jan 07, 2009 |
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Person-to-person payments catch on with banks
You're out for dinner with a friend and the bill arrives. But, oops, you're short on cash and can't pay up.
Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation
Aug 04, 2010 |
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Music industry battles Spanish computer buff
(AP) -- Pablo Soto's story may be every computer whiz kid's dream - or nightmare. After leaving school at 16 to support his family, he managed to eke out a living doing what he loves most: designing computer ...
Jun 09, 2009 |
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Peer-to-peer heart monitoring
The possibility of remote monitoring for chronically ill patients will soon become a reality. Now, researchers in South Africa and Australia have devised a decentralized system to avoid medical data overload. They describe ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Mar 09, 2009 |
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