Communications of the ACM
An 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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Massive Botnet 'indestructible,' Say Researchers
A new and improved botnet that has infected more than four million PCs is "practically indestructible," security researchers say. "TDL-4," the name for both the...
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Bin Laden's Villa Lacked Internet, Phone Service
The absence of Internet and telephone service at Osama bin Laden's $1 million hiding place helped tip off intelligence experts that the Al Qaeda leader was indeed...
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Iranian General Accuses Siemens of Helping .s., Israel Build Stuxnet
An Iranian military commander Saturday accused the German electronics giant Siemens with helping U.S. and Israeli teams craft the Stuxnet worm that attacked his...
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Big Data to Drive a Surveillance Society
As real-time and batch analytics evolve using big data processing engines such as Hadoop, corporations will be able to track our activities, habits, and locations...
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Japan's Internet Largely Intact After Earthquake, Tsunami
Japan's Internet infrastructure demonstrated surprising resilience in the face of the recent earthquake and tsunami, as most Web sites remain in operation and the...
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Intel Says Light Peak Interconnect Technology Is Ready
Intel's high-speed Light Peak interconnect technology, which links PCs to displays and external storage devices, is ready for implementation, says Intel's David...
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White House Says Supercomputing 'arms Race' Could Prove Costly
Looks for better ways to make sure supercomputers "address our current national priorities."
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The Clock Is Ticking on Encryption
Today's secure cipher-text may be tomorrow's open book.
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European nion Funds Cloud Security Project
The European Union is funding Trustworthy Clouds, a research project aimed at developing a series of technical advances that will increase the security of cloud...
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'net Pioneers: Open Internet Should Be Separate
A group of Internet and technology pioneers recently filed a document with the U.S. Federal Communications Commission, advising the agency to allow for an open...
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W3c pdates Html5, Makes Math Easy
The W3C's updated MathML standard for rendering mathematical notations on Web pages better portrays math symbols and supports more languages. Designers will be...
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China's 'Big Hole' Marks Scale of Supercomputing Race
1,000 U.S. scientists are involved in exascale development, but China and Europe have stepped up their investment, IBM warns.
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Web Could Be Stylized By New W3c Font Platform
The World Wide Web Consortium's Web Fonts Working Group has launched version 1.0 of the Web Open File Format (WOFF), compression technology that will provide a...
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Some Experts Question Efforts to Identify Cyberattackers
Cybersecurity experts testifying at a recent U.S. House of Representatives subcommittee hearing disagreed about whether the federal government should explore new...
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Researchers: Poor Password Practices Hurt Security for All
University of Cambridge researchers recently completed a large study of password-protected Web sites and found that a lack of industry standards harms end-user...
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P2p Networks a Treasure Trove of Leaked Health Care Data, Study Finds
Dartmouth College researchers have found that health care data is as easily accessible on peer-to-peer (P2P) networks now as it was before the enactment of a new...
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Researcher Aims to Secure RFID Tags
Technology for providing alerts when information on RFID tags is being accessed and controlling access to private information was on display during the recent CHI...
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After Google-China Dust-p, Cyberwar Emerges as a Threat
Recent cyberattacks against Google and other tech firms highlight concerns about adversaries' ability to launch a full-fledged cyberwar against the United States...
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Cyberattacks Are 'Existential Threat' to U.S., FBI Says
The threat from cyberattacks is so severe that it actually threatens the very existence of the United States, says Steven Chabinsky, the deputy assistant director...
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