Windows 11 Security — Our Hacker-in-Chief Runs Attacks and Shows Solutions
Many of the optional or high-end security controls from Windows 10 are now on by default and required on new machines with Windows 11.
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Amazon’s Dark Secret: It Has Failed to Protect Your Data
Voyeurs. Sabotaged accounts. Backdoor schemes. For years, the retail giant has handled your information less carefully than it handles your packages.
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Jen Easterly Wants Hackers to Help US Cyber Defense
The new director of the US Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency, Jen Easterly, joined WIRED contributing editor Garrett Graff to talk about hacking and misinformation on a global scale and how to combat the ever-evolving nature of cyberattacks.
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Why Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp All Went Down Today
A Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Oculus outage knocked every corner of Mark Zuckerberg’s empire offline on Monday. It’s a social media blackout that can most charitably be described as “thorough” and seems likely to prove particularly tough to fix.
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The anatomy of a WordPress theme
Yoast’s WordPress theme infographic.
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Safe Systems Programming in Rust
In this article, we begin by giving the reader a bird’s-eye view of the Rust programming language, with an emphasis on some of the essential features of Rust that set it apart from its contemporaries. Second, we describe the initial progress made in the RustBelt project, an ongoing project funded by the European Research Council (ERC), whose goal is to provide the first formal (and machine-checked) foundations for the safety claims of Rust. In so doing, we hope to inspire other members of the computer science research community to start paying closer attention to Rust and to help contribute to the development of this groundbreaking language.
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Cyber Security Research in the Arab Region: A Blooming Ecosystem with Global Ambitions
In this article, we will survey the main initiatives related to cyber security in the Arab region, report on the evolution of the cyber security posture, and point to possible Pan-Arab and international collaboration avenues in cyber security research.
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Biomedical Computing in the Arab World: Unlocking the Potential of a Growing Research Community
This article sheds light on notable research efforts in the Arab world in each of the aforementioned areas of biomedical computing [biomedical imaging, biomedical signal analysis and bioinformatics]. It also demonstrates how this research addresses healthcare issues in the region.
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Non-Traditional Data Sources: Providing Insights into Sustainable Development
Here, we showcase regionally developed projects that explore the use of non-traditional data sources and AI to help measure progress toward the [Sustainable Development Goals].
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Building a Multilingual Wikipedia
In order to close these knowledge gaps we are building a multilingual Wikipedia where content is created only once but made available in all languages.
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May I Borrow Your Covid Immunity?
Whenever a new virus emerges—be it HIV or SARS-CoV-2—a few lucky people put up a potent natural defense. Monoclonal antibody drugs let them share the health.
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10 local artists are telling community stories through murals. Here’s where to see them.
Murals created by various artists in honor of Salt Lake’s rich diversity.
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The Worsening State of Ransomware
Suddenly, you have people with limited ability using powerful software to discover, exfiltrate, and encrypt files. They wind up with many of the same capabilities that sophisticated cybercriminals have.
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When Hackers Were Heroes
What was exceptional about MIT was not that it had a computer or that unkempt programmers were devising impressive tricks. It was that MIT had enough computers that a couple of surplus machines could be left out for members of the community to play with.
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Deep Learning Speeds MRI Scans
Facebook, the Palo Alto, CA-based online social network, has teamed up with radiologists at New York University’s Langone Medical Center in Manhattan to develop an artificial intelligence (AI)-based imaging accelerator for MRI scanners.
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The SolarWinds Hack
The SolarWinds affair is simply another incident in a long pattern of intrusions.
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Everything VPN Is New Again
The growing number of end-user devices and a new layer of virtualization in datacenters has subtly but profoundly changed how the VPN abstraction fits into networking.
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Battery Day
Batteries are a part of everyday life; without them, the world would be a much different place. Your cellphone, flashlight, tablet, laptops, drones, cars, and other devices would not be portable and operational without batteries.
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Implementing Insider Defenses
Classical approaches to cyber-security—isolation, monitoring, and the like—are a good starting point for defending against attacks, regardless of perpetrator. But implementations of those approaches in hardware and/or software can invariably be circumvented by insiders, individuals who abuse privileges and access their trusted status affords.
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Five Nonobvious Remote Work Techniques
Here are my top five favorite techniques Stack Overflow uses to make remote work successful on a social level.
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