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Virus hits US drone fleet: report

A computer virus has hit the US Predator and Reaper drone fleet that Washington deploys to hunt down militants, logging the keystrokes of pilots remotely flying missions, Wired magazine reported.

Technology / Other

created Oct 09, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (11) | comments 19

Virginia Tech computer scientist, student design award winning software to combat hacking

One of the serious threats to a user's computer is a software program that might cause unwanted keystroke sequences to occur in order to hack someone's identity. This form of an attack is increasing, infecting enterprise ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Nov 01, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

G19 keyboard goes way beyond typing

It seems like the ordinary is no longer acceptable when it comes to the ordinary things we attach to our computers these days. For example, I'll bet the computer mouse you are using is at the very least an ...

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Mar 25, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (18) | comments 6

Stolen-data trove offers look inside a botnet

(AP) -- Getting hacked is like having your computer turn traitor on you, spying on everything you do and shipping your secrets to identity thieves.

Technology / Software

created Mar 15, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0




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San Fran college's computer network compromised

(AP) -- The computer networks of a San Francisco community college have been infected with software viruses that illegally transmitted personal data from students and employees overseas, school officials said Friday.

Technology / Internet

created Jan 14, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

High-tech devices leave users vulnerable to spies

"You could now listen in 100 percent completely undetected" - that's the promise one company makes on its website to anyone who wants to eavesdrop on someone else's cellphone.

Technology / Telecom

created Jan 05, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A fresh perspective on internet security

People don’t do enough to protect themselves on the Internet. They don’t use good passwords. They’re poor at recognizing the URL of “phishing” sites. They ignore certificate errors.

Technology / Internet

created Dec 21, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

FBI contacted phone monitoring firm about software

A senior executive at a technology company that makes monitoring software secretly installed on 141 million cellphones said Thursday that the FBI approached the company about using its technology but was reb ...

Technology / Telecom

created Dec 15, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 7

A few hacker teams do most China-based data theft

As few as 12 different Chinese groups, largely backed or directed by the government there, commit the bulk of the China-based cyberattacks stealing critical data from U.S. companies and government agencies, according to U.S. ...

Technology / Internet

created Dec 12, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (8) | comments 1

Researcher finds snooping smartphone software

A smartphone security researcher is shining light on a hidden program that tracks activity on Android, BlackBerry and Nokia handsets.

Technology / Software

created Dec 01, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (16) | comments 6

New system will detect insider threats from massive data sets

When a soldier in good mental health becomes homicidal or a government employee abuses access privileges to share classified information, we often wonder why no one saw it coming. When looking through the ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Nov 10, 2011 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Turning iPhone into spiPhone: Smartphones' accelerometer can track strokes on nearby keyboards

It's a pattern that no doubt repeats itself daily in hundreds of millions of offices around the world: People sit down, turn on their computers, set their mobile phones on their desks and begin to work. What ...

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Oct 18, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (7) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Stanford summer course yields touchscreen Braille writer

Each summer, under the red-tiled roofs and sandstone of Stanford, the Army High-Performance Computing Research Center (AHPCRC) invites a select group of undergraduates from across the country gather for a two-month immersion ...

Technology / Engineering

created Oct 10, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Hackers hijack Twitter accounts of Chavez critics

(AP) -- Over months, Venezuelan TV soap opera writer Leonardo Padron built a Twitter following of about 250,000 people by posting more than a dozen messages a day, many of them skewering President Hugo Chavez.

Technology / Internet

created Sep 27, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0


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