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The Open Vulnerability Assessment System (OpenVAS) is a framework of several services and tools offering a comprehensive and powerful vulnerability scanning and vulnerability management solution. The actual security scanner is accompanied with a daily updated feed of Network Vulnerability Tests (NVTs).
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An ATM-maker in Chennai, India, has developed a line of ATMs that integrates some — let’s say surprising — theft deterence features.
The company’s “intelligent ATM” delivers a punishing, but nonfatal, electric shock to any would-be thief who attempts to carry it off.
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Cybersecurity isn’t just an issue for the feds and big companies like Google and Facebook. Cities of all sizes around the world are increasingly reliant on information systems that could be vulnerable to attack. That’s why Microsoft is volunteering its cybersecurity expertise, free of charge, to select city governments through 100 Resilient Cities, a non-profit organization funded by the Rockefeller Foundation.
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On one end, where governments of countries like Russia is criticizing end-to-end encryption and considering to ban the encrypted communication apps like Snapchat, CryptoCat, WhatsApp and Apple’s iMessage. On the other hand, the Internet community has come up with a new and rather more secure encrypted communication app.
Dubbed Peerio, an "encrypted productivity suite" designed to offer much more usable alternative to PGP email and file encryption, so that every individual user and business can encrypt everything from Instant Messages to online file storage.
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Cloud Security is one of the buzzwords in the industry today. But, what does it mean? Are there new kinds of threats with the cloud?
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Do you know which programs ran in the past on your Windows PC? It is likely that you know at least some of them, the programs that you have started manually for example. Depending on how the computer is used, it may be just a tiny fraction of executable files that are run on the system.
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PaperRater is a web site that offers a free document scanning service. Just paste the chosen text into the page and hit the Get Report button (remembering to enable the optional "originality detection" feature first), and you’ll get the details in just a few seconds. In addition to the report about the reading level of the document, and the standard of grammar, you’ll also receive details of whether the document is mostly original or whether large sections appear to have been copied from other web sites.
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President Obama announced plans to propose a national data breach notification standard, a consumer privacy bill of rights, and privacy protection for students using electronic learning materials.
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Twitter and YouTube accounts belonging to the military’s US Central Command were hacked in Jan 2015. Hackers supportive of the terrorist group Islamic State, also known as ISIS, took credit and issued a warning to the U.S. military. “AMERICAN SOLDIERS, WE ARE COMING, WATCH YOUR BACK. ISIS,” the hackers tweeted through the account for the U.S. Central Command, which is the military command for the Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia.
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A ‘novel and complex’ new physical attack involves a mobile phone and a circuit board plugged into the ATM’s core.
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