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Security Lapse Discovered in Government Health Care Site It turns out that long wait times and persistent glitches aren’t the worst problems HealthCare.gov has experienced. A cyber security expert discovered that for the first few weeks the site existed, it was fairly easy for someone to hijack a user’s account. It was as easy as guessing a user name. |
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Ambient Backscatter as Battery Replacement Gaining Public Visibility A new technology that has gained visibility in the past few months is “ambient backscatter”—a method to reuse energy that replaces batteries in providing energy, leveraging existing and nearby energy sources through existing radio frequencies. |
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Are You Rethinking Cloud Network Access? Are you worried about your cloud resources network security? Is accessing your SaaS CRM system over the Internet just not reliable enough to meet your required customer SLAs and business objectives? We all know public cloud services—love them or hate them—have some glaring deficiencies. |
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October Software News Roundup In this software news roundup, learn about the launch of SecureDrop, the online whistle-blowing platform of Internet activist Aaron Swartz; new software that helps the blind practice yoga correctly; and how GE and Boeing are teaming up to create code that prevents ice buildup in airplane engines. |
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Cyber Attacks on Adobe Jeopardize Customers and US Agencies Bad news hit Adobe Systems earlier this month. Chief security officer Brad Arkin writes that the San Jose-based software company suffered some serious cyber attacks on its network, resulting in “illegal access of customer information as well as source code for numerous Adobe products.” |
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Yahoo! Ups Bug Bounties after T-Shirt Gate Joining the ranks of Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Mozilla, and others, Yahoo! will now offer payments or so-called bounties to developers and security researchers for finding security vulnerabilities in their software and applications. This move is not without some controversy. |
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Microsoft Pays Hacking Expert $100,000 for Finding Security Flaw For finding security flaws in its software, Microsoft paid a hacking expert one hundred thousand dollars this week, one of the largest bounties ever awarded by a major company for white-hat work. Bug bounty programs are becoming more and more common as tech companies realize their cost value. |