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Will the Kinect 2 Be Able to Read Your Lips?
How will users hack this one? The Kinect is a device that inherently grows and expands: Microsoft itself has come around to acknowledging that the oft-hackedreally...
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Everything You Need to Know About Carrieriq
"Carrier IQ" is a company that sells software to wireless companies that reports how well networks are performing in real-time, by sending performance data from...
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Can Software Patch the Ailing Power Grid?
A consortium providing the technology for a large-scale smart grid project says the software is nearly complete.
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Transcending Borders but Not Laws
As cloud computing spreads data around the globe, a haze of legal and privacy questions follows.
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The Next Wave of Botnets Could Descend from the Skies
The buzz starts low and quickly gets louder as a toy quadricopter flies in low over the buildings. It might look like flight enthusiasts having fun, but it could...
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Csi: Tech to Automatically Identify the Bad Guy
Researchers hope a new system could automatically scan the hours of CCTV footage police have to comb through to identify suspects without invading privacy.
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Personal Security
Researchers have developed a laptop-sized device that emits a jamming signal whenever it detects an unauthorized wireless link being established between a medical...
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A Cloud That Can't Leak
Microsoft researchers have developed a prototype data security system designed to ensure that information can only escape in an encrypted form that would be nearly...
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Beyond Cell Phone Wallets, Biometrics Promise Truly Wallet-Free Future
Ever since Google announced that its Android phones would be equipped with a "digital wallet" that allows users to pay for things simply by touching their phone...
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Forget Passwords and Let the Browser Remember
The Mozilla Foundation recently released BrowserID, an experimental tool designed to change the way users identify themselves online by storing identity information...
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A Futures Market For Computer Security
A pilot prediction market that can forecast major information security incidents before they occur is under development by information security researchers from...
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Bug-Squashing Tools Offered to Improve Network Security
The Department of Homeland Security has announced an initiative to shore up security by squashing software bugs. This follows a slew of high-profile attacks on...
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Software Extracts Your Location on Twitter Even When It's Secret
Users of online social media reveal more about themselves than they realize, and participation involves a great deal more trust than they think, suggests new research...
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Most Malware Tied to 'pay-Per-Install' Market
Researchers have found that most personal computers that get infected with malware were targeted by pay-per-install services, which charge hacking gangs up to $180...
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Making the Case For Security
Major corporations have made serious mistakes with information security recently, resulting in spectacular failures to protect business and customer records....
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What Bitcoin Is, and Why It Matters
Recent weeks have been exciting for a relatively new kind of currency speculator. In just three weeks, the total value of a unique new digital currency called...
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Tracking How Mobile Apps Track You
Third-party apps are the weakest link in user privacy on smart phones. They often get access to large quantities of user data, and there are few rules covering...
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The Next Big Thing in Analytics: Tracking Your Cursor's Every Move
Media, search engines, advertisers and social networks have been tracking what you click since the birth of the Web, but this measurement yields an incomplete...
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Failure Cascading Through the Cloud
Two major cloud computing services, Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud and Sony's PlayStation Network, recently suffered extended outages. Though the circumstances...
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