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Unlike Mozilla, Google anticipated SHA-1 errors caused by HTTPS traffic inspection systems

Google plans to ban only SHA-1-signed certificates that were issued after Jan. 1 by public certificate authorities

Intelligence agency wants computer scientists to develop brain-like computers

Coding, asynchronous computing, messaging all part of IARPA brain/computer research

DDoS attack on BBC may have been biggest in history

Last week's DDoS against the BBC may have been the largest in history

Privacy, mobile broadband top tech priorities for FTC, FCC

Chairs of FTC and FCC look ahead to a year that will see continued inquiries into tech firms' data collection practices and an ambitious effort to build out mobile broadband capacity.

Court rules Shutterfly may have violated privacy by scanning face photos

The lawsuit could set a precedent in other social network cases

NSF puts $30M behind software bug killing, synthetic biology & computational sustainability

Boston University, Cornell and Princeton lead the way on these National Science Foundation funded efforts

Antivirus software could make your company more vulnerable

Security researchers are worried that critical vulnerabilities in antivirus products are too easy to find and exploit

Experts predict more cyber attacks on universities

Valuable intellectual property at universities means that sector will be hit hard this year, reckons a security non-profit.