Browsing the "science" Tag

In memoriam – Corby Corbató, MIT computer science pioneer, dies at 93 – Naked Security

July 13th, 2019 📆 | 4042 Views ⚑

Almost everyone’s heard of Linux – it’s the operating system kernel that’s behind a significant proportion of servers on the

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See spies and spooks at the Science Museum – IanVisits

July 11th, 2019 📆 | 6206 Views ⚑

A new exhibition that is less James Bond and more Q looks at the history of how British spies kept

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Science, Ben Franklin, & Lessons – Business DigitalMunition #135

July 9th, 2019 📆 | 3178 Views ⚑

Business DigitalMunition DigitalMunition Productions 135, Articles, Ben Franklin, Business News, Business DigitalMunition, Leaders, Leadership, Lessons, Science July 9, 2019  

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Hacked forensic firm pays ransom after malware attack | Science

July 8th, 2019 📆 | 2272 Views ⚑

Britain’s largest private forensics provider has paid a ransom to hackers after its IT systems were brought to a standstill

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Week in review: The art and science of password hashing, cybersecurity crisis comms

July 7th, 2019 📆 | 3497 Views ⚑

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles and podcasts: Bringing more talented individuals into the

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Quantum – a double-edged sword for cryptograp | Science Features

July 6th, 2019 📆 | 5281 Views ⚑

Quantum computers pose a big threat to the security of modern communications, deciphering cryptographic codes that would take regular computers

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Hacked forensic firm pays ransom after malware attack | Science

July 5th, 2019 📆 | 2381 Views ⚑

Britain’s largest private forensics provider has paid a ransom to hackers after its IT systems were brought to a standstill

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The art and science of password hashing

July 2nd, 2019 📆 | 4405 Views ⚑

The recent FlipBoard breach shines a spotlight again on password security and the need for organizations to be more vigilant.

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Learn the science of secrets by taking these free courses on cryptography

June 27th, 2019 📆 | 2326 Views ⚑

  Cryptography is an emerging field in Information Security and one which particularly interests a lot of people because it

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Interdisciplinary research pushes science in new directions

June 24th, 2019 📆 | 2166 Views ⚑

Work being funded by Purdue University’s Discovery Park brings together scientists from diverse fields to address difficult problems WEST LAFAYETTE,

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Cloudera Data Science Workbench up to 1.4.0 User information disclosure

June 22nd, 2019 📆 | 6666 Views ⚑

CVSS Meta Temp Score Current Exploit Price (≈) 5.3 $0-$5k A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in Cloudera

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Police suspend work with major forensics firm after cyber-attack | UK news

June 22nd, 2019 📆 | 6839 Views ⚑

Police have halted all work with the UK’s largest private forensics provider after a ransomware attack, in the latest crisis

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Oswego professor, scholarly team produce 28 science-themed videos to teach Hindi – oswegocountynewsnow.com

June 20th, 2019 📆 | 3520 Views ⚑

Oswego professor, scholarly team produce 28 science-themed videos to teach Hindi oswegocountynewsnow.com OSWEGO — Dr. Alok Kumar, distinguished teaching professor

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Professor joins team to produce science-themed videos to teach Hindi

June 18th, 2019 📆 | 2988 Views ⚑

Dr. Alok Kumar, distinguished teaching professor of physics at SUNY Oswego, had an idea to pitch to the National Security

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Behind a lesbian furore over a famous palaeontologist lies a deeper truth | Tori Herridge and Becky Wragg Sykes | Opinion

June 16th, 2019 📆 | 6907 Views ⚑

The furore over a film portraying the 19th-century palaeontologist Mary Anning as having a female lover probably tells us more

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Idle Computer Science skills are the Devil’s playthings • DigitalMunition

June 10th, 2019 📆 | 2428 Views ⚑

Who, Me? Ah, the sweet, sweet smell of Monday. What better way to start your week than combining it with

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MPs to question Huawei over the security risks to 5G networks | Science & Tech News

June 8th, 2019 📆 | 8580 Views ⚑

By Alexander J Martin, technology reporter MPs will question Chinese telecoms giant Huawei on Monday as part of a parliamentary

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Science and Technology ministry launches hacking software ‘The Popal’

June 8th, 2019 📆 | 7238 Views ⚑

(Disclaimer: this is a work of fiction. Learn to take a joke; you’ll live longer.) ISLAMABAD – A week after

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Python for Data Science – Can You Improve Data Science with Python?

May 25th, 2019 📆 | 5514 Views ⚑

Python for Data Science is one of the most essential parts for those who all are willing to focus on

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The Art & Science of Secure Behavior

May 20th, 2019 📆 | 3871 Views ⚑

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Eureka Theater’s Science on Screen Series Closes with 1995 Crime Film ‘Hackers’ – Redheaded Blackbelt

May 16th, 2019 📆 | 6206 Views ⚑

This is a press release from the Eureka Theater: EUREKA, California – Science on Screen at the Historic Eureka Theater

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Scientists help artificial intelligence outsmart hackers | Science

May 14th, 2019 📆 | 2717 Views ⚑

An artificial intelligence (AI) trained on the photos of a dog, crab, and duck (top) would be vulnerable to deception

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Hacking the Ionosphere, for Science

May 10th, 2019 📆 | 4638 Views ⚑

Imagine what it must have been like for the first human to witness an aurora. It took a while for

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CACM August 2018 – How to Teach Computer Ethics through Science Fiction

May 10th, 2019 📆 | 6346 Views ⚑

Computer science faculty have a responsibility to teach students to recognize both the larger ethical issues and particular responsibilities that

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