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The May 1, 2012 NY Times article " California Chosen as Home for Computing Institute " covers the $60 million theoretical computin...

For Mac owners, the nightmare scenario finally arrived. A piece of malware called Flashback, which has been in existence and steadily evolvi...

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced a call for proposals this week in a $40 million program to encourage research and develop...

SANS Newsbites tells of a CBS news investigation that had found that the hard drives of four digital copy machines purchased second-hand c...

Mark Pothier's Boston Globe article, Please do not change your password ," covers a paper by Microsoft Researcher Cormac Herley , ...

A press release from UC Berkeley's Law School, " Privacy Protection Needed as Smart Grid Arrives " points out privacy concerns...

Federal judge Denny Chin heard more than four hours of testimony in a packed courtroom this week about the hotly contested class-action la...

Slashdot is running an article about a problem in the Adobe Download Manager (ADM) found by Researcher Aviv Raff. The net effect of the pr...

TRUST faculty member Deirdre Mulligan is quoted in the Feburary 12, 2010 NY Times article Critics Say Google Invades Privacy With New Servi...

The Department of Energy has said it would spend $8.5 million to create a National Energy Sector Cyber Organization that would help protec...

The Risks Digest has an item that refers to Stephanie Neil's article in "Managing Automation", 12 Sep 2009 that discusses th...

Slashdot reports a new tool being developed by Symantec intended to raise consumer awareness about cybercrime. By answering a few questio...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) released Special Publication 800-53 , titled Recommended Security Controls for Fe...

eWEEK.COM is running a story about a new zero-day vulnerability affecting Adobe's Flash Player software that is being exploited by attac...

ISEDB's article " Google Book Search Settlement Inquiry Announced " includes a link to Pam Samuelson's talk Reflections o...

The 2nd Annual Privacy Law Scholars Conference (PLSC) will be held at the Claremont Resort in Berkeley, CA, on June 4-5. PLSC is an academi...

ACM TechNews is running an article about a new cryptography approach based on the mathematical theory of elliptic curves, a leading candid...

Slashdot prints an article about a network of mystery hackers, mostly based in China, making 70,000 attempts a day to break into the NYPD...

The Risks Digest points to an article about a CIA agent testifying before the Election Assistance Commission. His position is that electr...

Slashdot picked up a story in Wired about the Obama administration siding with the Bush administration when it urged a federal judge to s...

SANS Institute summarizes an article about US privacy rights and civil liberties advocacy groups writing legislators and asking them to e...

Yesterday, the SysAdmin, Audit, Network, Security ( SANS ) Institute announced that in Washington D.C., experts from more than 30 U.S. and i...

Slashdot references a report in Ars Technica of a federal judge ruling that a lawsuit filed by an Islamic charity alleging illegal wiretap...

ACM TechNews points out the cover story of National Journal about what it will take to keep the next invader out of Congressional computer...

ACM TechNews summarizes an article in Business Week about how ill prepared the United States is for the challenges of 21st century cyberse...

Slashdot calls attention to an interview with General Kevin Chilton , U.S. STRATCOM commander and the head of all military cyberwarefare a...

ACM TechNews picked up an article published in The New York Times on how new technologies and the Internet's incursion into every aspe...

ACM TechNews remarks on the status of the initiatives launched in the current administration and what U.S. President-elect Barack Obama wil...

ACM TechNews notes that according to an article in cnet news , the U.S. Senate race in Minnesota is yet undecided and that a hand recount ...