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USB Armory is the Swiss army knife of security devices

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“Where’s Andrea?” That was the question on the lips of attendees at this week’s No Such Con security conference.They were looking for Andrea Barisani, Chief Security Engineer of Italian security consultancy Inverse Path, and more precisely the prototype USB security device he was carrying.“http://inversepath.com/usbarmory.html”>USB Armory” looks like a fat USB memory stick, but it contains security features enabling it to act as a self-encrypting data store, a Tor router, a password locker and many other things.Barisani arrived in Paris

Free tool detects ‘government surveillance spyware’

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Free software that can detect the presence of surveillance spyware has been launched by a global coalition of human rights and tech organisations. Organizations including Amnesty International, Privacy International, Digitale Gesellschaft and Electronic Frontier Foundation have teamed up to unveil the open source tool Detekt. Detekt, they say, is the first publicly available tool that spots surveillance spyware that has been “increasingly” used by governments to read private emails and remotely turn on a computer’s camera or microphone to secretly record activities.

CERN's Higgs Discovery As Portal To New 'Technicolor' Physics

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CERN’s historic discovery of the elusive Higgs boson --- the subatomic particle thought to be at the root of what gives normal matter its mass --- may actually represent only a portion of a more complicated and heretofore unexplored particle physics paradigm, say researchers.

Microsoft Releases Emergency Out-of-Band Patch for Kerberos Bug MS14-068

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Microsoft today released an "out-of-band" security updates to fix a critical vulnerability in all supported versions of its Windows Server software that cyber criminals are exploiting to compromise whole networks of computers.
The Emergency patch release comes just one week after Microsoft provided its monthly security patch updates. The November 2014 Patch Tuesday updates included 16 security

Google working on software that will automatically caption your photos

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Can a software accurately spell out what a photo contains, can it give captions that describe the objects in a picture? Google's Research team is pretty close to cracking this concept.
The post Google working on software that will automatically caption your photos appeared first on Tech2.

Citrix Snowden-Proofs Enterprise Files in The Cloud

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Some Enterprise file sync and share (EFSS) vendors don’t do much to appease IT managers who are so nervous about putting Enterprise information in the cloud that they simply don’t do it. Never mind that their potential customers have good reason to do the opposite, given the high operating expenses and substandard user experiences that on premises solutions provide.

Uber Demonstrates How It Can Spy On Its Critics And Enemies

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Uber is in the news this morning after an executive made some bone-headed remarks in public. Emil Michael, SVP of Business at Uber, suggested that Uber could spend "a million dollars" to form a group of people that would research the "personal lives" and "families" of journalists who are critical of the company.  Michael was speaking at a dinner in New York when he made the remarks.

A System That Any Automaker Can Use to Build Self-Driving Cars

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Google gets most of the attention when it comes to self-driving cars. And when it isn’t getting all the love, people focus on the efforts of premier automakers like Audi and Tesla. But the autonomous vehicle that makes human driving a quaint pastime may well come from an auto industry stalwart many people have never […] The post A System That Any Automaker Can Use to Build Self-Driving Cars appeared first on WIRED.

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