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Cyberattack Closes Energy Department Lab

A sophisticated cyberattack has shut down Internet and e-mail services at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, an Energy Department facility that conducts IT security research. An Energy Department spokesman was unavailable for comment, but a posting on Twitter by the … Continue reading

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Whole new industries being created with vast amounts of new data becoming available

As computers, databases and networks come to intermediate almost every aspect of modern human life, the volume of electronic breadcrumbs generated from our daily activities and transactions has exploded. Academic researchers, marketers, governments, and social scientists are all clamoring to … Continue reading

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DARPA lets you design the next generation of miniature surveillance drones

At first glance it seems like a fairly routine military tech project: DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, is developing a miniature unmanned air vehicle that can be carried into the field in a rucksack and sent out to … Continue reading

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American Drones Are Infected with a Computer Virus

Love the idea of the US being patrolled by the same type of pilot-less drones that keep accidentally attacking innocent people in Afghanistan? Then you should reaally appreciate this story… A virus has infected America’s drone fleet, Wired’s Noah Shachtman … Continue reading

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Government and ISPs At Odds Over Fighting Malware “Botnets”

Both the U.S. government and the country’s internet service providers (ISP) agree that botnets are among the greatest threats facing Web users. But they can’t yet agree on what to do about it, because the ISPs aren’t exactly the biggest … Continue reading

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Pentagon Extends Program to Defend Cyber Networks

As hackers and hostile nations launch increasingly sophisticated cyberattacks against U.S. defense contractors, the Pentagon is extending a pilot program to help protect its prime suppliers. That program could possibly serve as a model for other government agencies. It is … Continue reading

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Online gamers crack AIDS enzyme puzzle!

Online games are being used for research in ways that are really having a huge impact! Online gamers have achieved a feat beyond the realm of Second Life or Dungeons and Dragons: they have deciphered the structure of an enzyme … Continue reading

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“Predictive” Policing

The police department in Santa Cruz, California, has begun an experiment that uses a mathematical algorithm to predict when and where certain crimes will be committed, and puts police on the scene before they happen. So far police have arrested … Continue reading

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“Anonymous” Hacktivist Group Unmasked

A total of 16 people with ties to the “hacktivist” group “Anonymous” were arrested by the FBI on Monday. Fourteen of them were charged in connection with an attack on PayPal, which was targeted by “Anonymous” because the website suspended … Continue reading

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U.S. Internet Service Providers Are Hijacking Customers’ Searches!

Several internet service providers across the United States are using an online service to secretly spy on, and redirect their subscribers’ online searches, according to a group of researchers at the International Computer Science Institute in Berkeley, California. The ISPs … Continue reading

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