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Tech industry urges G7 to unify cloud security standards

A leading tech industry group on Tuesday called on G7 nations to harmonize cloud security certification across the world's richest nations, in an effort to stoke cooperation and counter calls that data should stay within ...

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Oct 1, 2024

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AI model beats CAPTCHA every time

A trio of AI researchers at ETH Zurich, Switzerland, has modified an AI-based, picture-processing model to solve Google's reCAPTCHAv2 human-testing system.

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Sep 24, 2024

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Encrypted 'Ghost' app: What we know

Police revealed Tuesday they had infiltrated and taken down an encrypted chat app called Ghost used by criminals across the world.

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Sep 18, 2024

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'Good complexity' can make hospital networks more cybersecure

In May, a major cyberattack disabled clinical operations for nearly a month at Ascension, a health care provider that includes 140 hospitals across the U.S. Investigators tracked the problem to malicious ransomware that had ...

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Scientists offer a detailed look at the skeleton of an ancient predator that thrived in extreme conditions
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Study sheds light on limitations of zooplankton for inactivating pathogen contaminated water
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Mathematicians and climate researchers build new models for understanding polar sea ice
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Ancient protein structure may have enabled early molecular evolution and diversification
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Future cybersecurity incidents are almost a certainty, asserts US policy arm of global computing society
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Health department now notifying Floridians whose information was stolen, leaked
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Computer scientists discover vulnerabilities in a popular security protocol
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The influence of optimism bias and loss aversion in cyber risk management decisions
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Fear can inspire remote workers to protect IT resources

Fear of what could go wrong is the greatest motivator when it comes to getting remote workers to protect their employer's information technology security, according to a recent study in Computers & Security. But it tends ...

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Jan 11, 2023

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Cyberattack keeps Iowa's largest school district closed

An apparent cyberattack on Iowa's largest school district has led officials to cancel classes for 30,000 students for a second day as technicians scramble to protect data and restore the computer system, the district's leader ...

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Jan 11, 2023

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Researchers work to avoid future FTX debacles

The Center for Research toward Advancing Financial Technologies (CRAFT), a collaboration between Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Stevens Institute of Technology, is dedicated to advancing blockchain technology so that ...

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Jan 10, 2023

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Twitter leak exposes 235 million email addresses from hack

Personal emails linked to 235 million Twitter accounts hacked some time ago have been exposed according to Israeli security researcher Alon Gal—making millions vulnerable to having their accounts compromised or identities ...

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Jan 6, 2023

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Identifying a vulnerability in critical spacecraft networks

When NASA docks two spacecraft in orbit, timing is critical. Their movements must be precisely synchronized with each other to prevent catastrophic failure, which means the computer networks that control their thrusters must ...

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Jan 6, 2023

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