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Simple Security for Wireless
August 22, 2011 — Researchers have demonstrated the first wireless security scheme that can protect against "man-in-the-middle" attacks -- but doesn't require a ... > full story -
First Flaws in the Advanced Encryption Standard Used for Internet Banking Identified
August 17, 2011 — Researchers have found a weakness in the AES algorithm used worldwide to protect internet banking, wireless communications, and data on hard disks. They managed to come up with a clever new attack ... > full story -
New Anti-Censorship Scheme Could Make It Impossible to Block Individual Web Sites
August 10, 2011 — A radical new approach to thwarting Internet censorship would essentially turn the whole Web into a proxy server, making it virtually impossible for a censoring government to block individual Web ... > full story -
Quantum Computers? Physicists 'Entangle' Two Atoms Using Microwaves for the First Time
August 10, 2011 — Physicists have for the first time linked the quantum properties of two separated ions (electrically charged atoms) by manipulating them with microwaves instead of the usual laser ... > full story -
Tracking Crime in Real Time
August 8, 2011 — Professors have developed a high-powered context-based search algorithm to analyze digital data on-the-fly to support ongoing criminal investigations. The research not only gives crime-fighters a new ... > full story -
Most Canadians Can Be Uniquely Identified from Their Date of Birth and Postal Code; New Research Unveils Privacy Risks
August 8, 2011 — There are increasing pressures for health care providers to make individual-level data readily available for research and policy making. But Canadians are more likely to allow the sharing of their ... > full story -
Computers: The Art of Magnetic Writing
August 1, 2011 — Miniaturization in computer hard drives allows us to store vast amounts of digital data in a very small space, but it has created numerous problems that physicists and engineers are struggling to ... > full story -
Breakthrough Toward Quantum Computing
July 15, 2011 — To build a quantum computer, one needs to create and precisely control individual quantum memory units, called qubits, for information processing. Scientists have made a breakthrough in the creation ... > full story -
Don't Stop Anonymizing Data: Report Dispels Myths of De-Identification
June 16, 2011 — Canadian privacy experts have issued a new report that strongly backs the practice of de-identification as a key element in the protection of personal information. The report validates that that ... > full story -
Protecting Medical Implants from Attack
June 14, 2011 — A new system would jam wireless signals sent to medical implants by unauthorized ... > full story -
Quantum Cryptography: Perfect Eavesdropper Illustrates Overlooked Loophole in Secure Communications Technology
June 14, 2011 — Quantum key distribution (QKD) is a tool to provide confidential communication between two remote parties. QKD is perfectly secure in principle, but researchers have long been aware that loopholes ... > full story -
Leakage of Private Information from Popular Web Sites Is Common, New Study Finds
June 2, 2011 — A study of more than 100 popular web sites has found that three-quarters leak either private information or users' unique identifiers to third-party tracking sites. The study showed how such leakage ... > full story
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