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New York City Takes Aim at AI
The Big Apple fields an action plan for artificial intelligence.
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Top Cybersecurity Aide at White House Resigns
Melissa E. Hathaway, the Obama administration's senior aide on cybersecurity, is stepping down from her role due to delays in the choosing of an administrator to...
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Wiring Rural America: Which Technology Is Best?
Reaching the most remote rural customers with high-speed Internet access can be prohibitively expensive. Consider the case of Hill Country Telephone Cooperative...
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A Police Woman Fights Quantum Hacking and Cracking
Quantum computing will give people and institutions an enormous amount of computing power, but it will also make their data vulnerable to attack. For Julia Kempe...
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Halted '03 Iraq Plan Illustrates .s. Fear of Cyberwar Risk
At the core of the U.S. Obama Administration and its Pentagon leadership's efforts to develop rules governing cyberwarfare is the question of whether offensive...
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Nist Releases Cybersecurity Recommendations For Federal Government
he U.S. Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) released on Friday (July 31) its final version of a publication that represents...
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Researchers Try to Stalk Botnets sed By Hackers
To track the spread of botnets, Sandia National Laboratories computer security specialists Rob Minnich and Don Rudish have converted a Dell Thunderbird supercomputer...
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Clarkson Project Will Protect Cyberspace
The National Science Foundation has awarded a $1.2 million grant to five research institutions to develop a computer program for detecting weak areas in cryptographic...
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Program Helps Faculty Members Develop Improved Security Assurance Programs
Carnegie Mellon University's CyLab and Information Networking Institute (INI) are hosting several faculty members for the annual Information Assurance Capacity...
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Dns Remains Vulnerable One Year After Kaminsky Bug
In the year since security researcher Dan Kaminsky discovered a vulnerability in the domain name system (DNS), which could allow hackers to redirect traffic from...
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How Networking Is Transforming Healthcare
High-speed computer networks have the potential to transform the healthcare industry, according to Mike McGill, program director for Internet2's Health Sciences...
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A Contest to Train Cyber Combatants
A consortium that includes the Center for Strategic and International Studies, the SANS Institute, and the U.S. Department of Defense aims to cultivate a new generation...
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Government Is Falling Behind on Cybersecurity, Report Finds
A report released by the Partnership for Public Service and Booz Allen Hamilton has found that the U.S. federal government is falling behind in its efforts to protect...
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Researchers Set New Distance Record for Quantum Key Distribution
Researchers from the University of Geneva in Switzerland and Corning Inc. have set a new distance record for quantum key distribution (QKD) using a new prototype...
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Council Releases Network Science and Engineering Research Agenda
Ellen Zegura, chair of the Computing Community Consortium's (CCC) Network Science & Engineering (NetSE) Council, released a report during the GENI Engineering Conference...
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This Data Will Self-Destruct: Tool Makes Online Info Vanish
The University of Washington has developed a system, called Vanish, that puts an expiration date on electronic data. After a set time period, electronic communications...
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Trust But Verify: Security Risks Abound in the It Supply Chain
There are substantial national security issues associated with the use of information technology (IT) products delivered via the global supply chain, including...
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U.S. Unveils Cybersecurity Plan
'Intent and timing' may help the federal cyberspace initiative work better than previous blueprints.
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Learning Through Games
Electronic games can inspire players to explore new ideas and concepts. By gaining a better understanding of the dynamic between player and game, researchers hope...
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IT Drives Policy - and Vice Versa
Technologists discuss government policies affecting broadband, patent reform, privacy — and President Obama's effect on it all.
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