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Medical Professionals Tap AI to Combat COVID-19
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Hacker Group Is Eavesdropping on Corporate Email, FTP Traffic
The Chinese security firm Qihoo 360 reports that a hacker group has been eavesdropping on corporate networks since at least early December.
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Crypto-Mining Botnet Has Been Hijacking MSSQL Servers for Almost Two Years
A malware botnet has been launching brute-force attacks against Microsoft SQL databases for nearly two years.
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A Digital Court for a Digital Age
Researchers have created a mechanism that uses blockchain to settle legal disputes.
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Attackers Can Bypass Fingerprint Authentication with an ~80% Success Rate
Fingerprint-based authentication is fine for most people, but it's hardly foolproof.
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WhatsApp is Limiting Message Forwarding to Combat Coronavirus Misinformation
From today, messages identified as "highly forwarded" can be forwarded to a single person, instead of five.
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