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FBI: Universities and colleges need to protect against espionage
Usually I stay away from politics, but this news is a bit too creepy to me. I would have never thought that Universities and schools some day will be seen as a target for espionage. The FBI believes they are. Scientists working on public Universities ... 		Jun 27, 2007
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Surveillance where you would never expect it
Researchers at Washington University in Devices That Tell On You: The Nike+iPod Sport Kit: As part of our research, we built a number of surveillance tools that malicious individuals could use to track Nike+iPod Sport Kit owners. Our tools can track Ni... 		Dec 13, 2006
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ID required to be seated in a pancake restaurant
I'm just speechless what kind of security measures some people come up with: John Russo has been a victim of identity theft. So when he was asked to fork over a photo ID just to be seated at an IHOP pancake restaurant, he flipped. "'You want my licens... 		Dec 3, 2006
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Hackers Zero In on Online Stock Accounts
It's been only a question of time: Hackers have been breaking into customer accounts at large online brokerages in the United States and making unauthorized trades worth millions of dollars as part of a fast-growing new form of online fraud under inve... 		Nov 19, 2006
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Who Owns Your Computer?
If left to grow, these external control systems will fundamentally change your relationship with your computer. They will make your computer much less useful by letting corporations limit what you can do with it. They will make your computer much less ... 		Sep 24, 2006
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Virtual machines as crash test dummies to detect infections
This could be the most important milestone in the history of intrusion detection systems ever. FireEye announced a new appliance that uses virtual machines as crash test dummies to detect infected devices on a network: FireEye technology uses virtual ... 		Sep 24, 2006
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Autonomous bot nets
Most certainly you have heard about bot networks that consist of thousands of PCs, infected by malware, that can be used for distributed attacks to bring down a server or to send out spam. All bots connect to a central server and listen for commands. T... 		Sep 24, 2006