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Researchers Develop Soft Robot That Shifts from Land to Sea with Ease
Soft robots developed by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University can transition from walking to swimming or crawling to rolling… From ACM TechNewsAn edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.
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Stealthy Hackers Target Military, Weapons Contractors
Analysts at Securonix discovered the attacks but couldn't attribute the campaign to any known threat actors, despite some similarities to past APT37 (Konni) attacks...
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Chinese Hackers Abuse VLC Media Player to Launch Malware Loader
Symantec researchers have identified a campaign perpetrated by a hacker group associated with the Chinese government using VLC Media Player to launch a custom malware...
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HP Patches 16 UEFI Firmware Bugs Allowing Stealthy Malware Infections
Researchers at Binarly discovered 16 high-impact UEFI firmware vulnerabilities affecting multiple HP models.
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Honeypot Experiment Reveals What Hackers Want From IoT Devices
A honeypot experiment has clarified hackers' goals in targeting Internet of Things devices.
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