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- Who's Dumber: Bad Guys … Or Good Guys?
- In the old cowboy movies, the black hats were villains that created mayhem, until the white hats came along and ended their reigns of fear. Now, we have the spectacle of good guys seemingly educating the bad guys on how to exploit flaws or processes of the Internet, that...
- Tags: Hat, Flaw, Internet, Social Security, BGP, Operational Accounting, Government, Networking, Finance, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2008-08-27
- Has Firefox already matched IE privacy features?
- Perspectives, hatched at Carnegie Mellon, thwarts so-called "Man in the Middle" attacks on SSH secure sites by creating a virtual notary that can check the validity of an unsigned security certificate. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Web Browsers, Microsoft Windows, Security, Internet, Operating Systems, Software, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-08-27
- News to know: IDF; Office 14; Google; Flash flaw; MobileMe; Zoho
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Jason O'Grady: MobileMe subscribers get a 60 day extension Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Is the "killer app" argument dead? More info on USB 3.0 emerges ...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Photograph, Attack, Flaw, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Microsoft Windows, Cloud Computing, Productivity, Microsoft Office, Security, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Operating Systems, Office Suites, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-19
- Carnegie-Mellon freshman gets first Fedora scholarship
- Carnegie-Mellon freshman gets first Fedora scholarshipHyphenCongratulations, Ricky! Dana, as a proud alumnus, I wanted you to know that the university's official name is "Carnegie Mellon University." The hyphen was removed many years ago.Sorry about thatI've been writing it with the hyphen for years. So Carnegie finally beat Mellon, eh?
- Tags: Carnegie-Mellon University, Fedora Scholarship, Fedora Project
- Discussion threads 2008-08-18
- Carnegie-Mellon freshman gets first Fedora scholarship
- Zhou is an active member of the Red Hat Fedora community, working on the group's web site and infrastructure. He has also worked on localizing the project Web site. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Carnegie-Mellon University, Red Hat Inc., Fedora Project, Scholarship, Zhou, Professional Development, Open Source, Web Site Development, Career, Internet, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-08-18
- Talking Firefox security with Mozilla's Window Snyder
- LAS VEGAS -- Mozilla security chief Window Snyder wants to open-source much more than the Firefox browser. During a sit-down chat at the Black Hat security conference here, Snyder announced plans to launch three new initiatives around threat modeling, training and vulnerability metrics that push the envelope...
- Tags: mozilla firefox, window, training, web browser, mozilla corp., window snyder, web browsers, security, internet, ryan naraine
- Blog posts 2008-08-06
- HP, Intel, Yahoo join NSF, schools for global cloud research
- Hewlett-Packard, Intel, and Yahoo will join universities and the National Science Foundation to launch a "global collaboration" into researching and experimenting with cloud computing, the companies announced Tuesday. The group will build a computing network comprised of six data centers on three continents in order to create a large-scale...
- Tags: National Science Foundation, Hewlett-Packard Co., Yahoo! Inc., Intel Corp., Cloud Computing, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-07-30
- 75% of online banking sites found vulnerable to security design flaws
- In a paper entitled "Analyzing Web sites for user-visible security design flaws" to be published at the Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security meeting at Carnegie Mellon University July 25, Atul Prakash and two of his doctoral students examined 214 financial institutions in 2006, finding that over 75% of all...
- Tags: Bank, Online Banking, Flaw, Security, Financial Services, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- Apple releases patches for dangerous QuickTime flaws in Apple TV 2.1 product
- Apple released patches for its Apple TV 2.1 product yesterday. Some of you might be saying, why do I care, I don't use Apple TV. Well, if you do use Apple TV, you obviously should care as some of these are very serious flaws, but if you don't,...
- Tags: Apple QuickTime, Movie, Patch Management, Apple Inc., Issue, Apple TV, Arbitrary Code Execution, Flaw, IMPACT, CVE-ID, Application Termination, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-07-11
- Reformed computer criminals - your country needs you
- And trust me, they really do. Over the last year, the UK and US Governments have had an awful problem in keeping basic data protection rules in check, almost to the point where they may have been broadcasting over the radio minutes of the intelligence committee meetings. ...
- Tags: Computer, Hat Hacker, Productivity, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-06-26
- Finding where a photo has been shot
- It's not the first time that Carnegie Mellon University CMU researchers play with Flickr image collections. Last year, they've used Flickr to edit our photos. Now, they're trying to estimate the geographic location of a single photo by comparing it to a database of 6 million pictures accurately geolocated by...
- Tags: Algorithm, Carnegie-Mellon University, Flickr, Vision, Photograph, Image, Computer, Computer Vision, Productivity, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-06-19
- Bank of NY "loses" 4.5M unencrypted customer records
- Bank of NY "loses" 4.5M unencrypted customer recordsData lost AGAIN.............What has me curious is whether or not the information ON the tapes is encrypted, whether it be residing in database files, flat files or whatever? This "data at rest" all should be stored in encrypted formats.........http://whistlersear.wordpress.comLost? Yeah right!Its always...
- Tags: Financial services, NetBackup, Bank of NY, bank
- Discussion threads 2008-06-04
- Pumping up the comp sci pipeline
- I had the opportunity to speak with Chris Stephenson on Wednesday. Ms. Stephenson is the Executive Director of the Association for Computing Machinery's Computer Science Teachers Association CSTA. Along with Google and a grant from the National Science Foundation, the CSTA is coordinating an ambitious two-day conference to...
- Tags: Computer Science, Computer, CS, Productivity, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-05-28
- Roving robots explore moon, desert
- Whether it's exploring the moon's craters or the inhospitable Chilean desert, robots are aiding in the research work that humans wouldn't ordinarily be able to do. At a recent visit to Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute in Pittsburgh, CNET News.com's Kara Tsuboi gets up close and personal with the...
- Tags: Emerging Technologies, News, kara tsuboi, carnegie mellon university, lunar x prize, robots, jared kohler, moon, mars, solar, space
- Videos 2008-05-28
- Games to make computers smarter
- The Carnegie Mellon University computer scientist who gave us Peekaboom and worked on the "distorted letter" tests called CAPTCHAs, is back with several new games. According to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, he just launched a new site where you can play to so-called GWAPS -- short for "games with a purpose."...
- Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Computer, Games, Personal Technology, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-05-18
- Survivor Buddy, a friendly robot rescuer
- The St. Petersburg Times, Florida, reports that a well-known robot designer, Robin Murphy, a professor of computer science and engineering at the University of South Florida USF, 'plans to add a heart to robot rescuers.' As says USF, the goal is to develop 'a robot that will be a companion...
- Tags: Details, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-05-17
- A snake-inspired robot
- On a recent visit to Pittsburgh, Penn., CNET News.com's Kara Tsuboi dropped by professor Howie Choset's Robotics Lab at Carnegie Mellon University to see his latest creation, the Snakebot.
- Tags: News, kara tsuboi, jared kohler, snakeBot, carnegie mellon, howie choset, robotics, rescue, surgery, heart, Robots, Emerging Technologies
- Videos 2008-05-08
- Do we need another CERT?
- Yes. Google's backing of oCERT is a major milestone in the history of open source. It's not that I have anything against the Computer Emergency Response TeamCERT at Carnegie-Mellon. They do important work, not only in identifying risks but in educating people on them. ...
- Tags: Vulnerability, CERT, Windows Machine, Dana, Security, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-05-06
- Photos: 'Mobot' races test design skills
- Carnegie Mellon University's mobile robot races test whether students, staff, and alums can create a robot fast and smart enough to navigate an outdoor slalom course. by CNET News.com
- Tags: Photograph, Robots, Emerging Technologies, CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2008-04-21
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