The race is on for a new internet
Europe is pushing to create a network infrastructure based on quantum physics.
Quantum Physics
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News tagged with internet security
The internet is surprisingly fragile, crashes thousands of times a year, and no one is making it stronger
How could a small internet service provider (ISP) in Pennsylvania cause millions of websites worldwide to go offline? That's what happened on June 24, 2019 when users across the world were left unable to access a large fraction ...
Internet
Jul 18, 2019
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Report: NSA cracked most online encryption
The National Security Agency, working with the British government, has secretly been unraveling encryption technology that billions of Internet users rely upon to keep their electronic messages and confidential data safe ...
Internet
Sep 5, 2013
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McAfee warns of hacker threat to autos
Cars made smarter with Internet technology are zooming into perilous hacker territory, according to a report by US computer security giant McAfee.
Other
Sep 7, 2011
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BitTorrent unveils NSA-proof online calling and messaging software
BitTorrent Inc., the San Francisco company behind the most popular technology for sharing files online, is branching out into a new arena: snoop-proof calling and texting.
Security
Aug 1, 2014
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CWI, Google announce first collision for Industry Security Standard SHA-1
Today, researchers at the Dutch research institute CWI and Google jointly announce that they have broken the SHA-1 internet security standard in practice. This industry standard is used for digital signatures and file integrity ...
Security
Feb 23, 2017
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US tech firms losing business over PRISM: poll
Revelations about the US government's vast data collection programs have already started hurting American technology firms, according to an industry survey released this week.
Internet
Jul 24, 2013
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Austrian student takes on Facebook over privacy
Max Schrems wasn't sure what he would get when he asked Facebook to send him a record of his personal data from three years of using the site.
Internet
Oct 26, 2011
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US judge orders Google to turn over data to FBI
A U.S. judge has ruled that Google Inc. must comply with the FBI's warrantless demands for customer data, rejecting the company's argument that the government's practice of issuing such requests to telecommunication companies, ...
Internet
Jun 1, 2013
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How future quantum computers will threaten today's encrypted data
The era of full-fledged quantum computers threatens to destroy internet security as we know it. Researchers are in a race against time to prepare new cryptographic techniques before the arrival of quantum computers, as cryptographers ...
Quantum Physics
Sep 14, 2017
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