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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 -
Theft Protection Developed for Virtual Machines
August 4, 2011 — Scientists have found a way to promptly detect hacker attacks on virtual machines. Companies and government agencies that employ virtual machines can thus protect data stored on them against ... > 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 -
Experts Complacent About Network Attacks: Study Shows Physical Attacks to Communications Network Infrastructure Deemed Low Priority Risk
July 28, 2011 — Industry experts and researchers may be underestimating the threat to Internet security posed by physical attacks to telecommunications infrastructure, according to new research. Only nine percent of ... > full story -
Protecting Networks Is Just a Game
July 27, 2011 — Information technologists have used game theory to develop a defense mechanism for networks that is more effective than previous ... > full story -
New Software Protects Water Utilities from Terrorist Attacks and Contaminants
July 25, 2011 — Americans are used to drinking from the kitchen tap without fear of harm, even though water utilities might be vulnerable to terrorist attacks or natural contaminants. Now, thanks to new open-source ... > 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 -
Youth Cybercrime Linked to Friends' Influence
June 23, 2011 — Peer influence and low self-control appear to be the major factors fueling juvenile cybercrime such as computer hacking and online bullying, according to a new ... > full story -
Careless Behaviour of Cloud Users Leads to Crucial Security Threats, Experts Find
June 20, 2011 — Scientists in Germany have discovered major security vulnerabilities in numerous virtual machines published by customers of Amazon's cloud. Among 1100 public Amazon Machine Images (AMIs), which are ... > full story -
Making Websites Accessible and Secure
June 17, 2011 — Website CAPTCHA technology used to protect sites from hackers, bots and spammers is making those same sites inaccessible to many potential users, according to a survey of 150 typical online forums ... > 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
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