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NASA touts real technologies highlighted in imminent ‘The Martian’ flick

“The Martian,” merges fictional and factual chronicles about Mars, building upon the work NASA and others have done exploring Mars and moving it into a future where NASA astronauts are regularly traveling to the red planet

Aug 21, 2015 7 mins

Careers Networking Security

Quantum computing breakthrough renews concerns of cybersecurity apocalypse

A new breakthrough in quantum computing could speed up the already ultra-powerful tech. With it, though, comes the exacerbated potential for a 'crypto-apocalypse' where existing computer security fails.

Aug 21, 2015 3 mins

Plenty of fish, and exploits too, on dating website

The Plenty of Fish online dating website served a malicious advertisement to visitors

Aug 21, 2015 2 mins

Why corporate security pros should care about the Ashley Madison breach

Names of Ashley Madison customers are a treasure trove for spear phishers

Aug 21, 2015 3 mins

China group attacks India with Word exploit, then uses Microsoft’s WMI

The hacking group seeks geopolitical information

Aug 20, 2015 3 mins

Latest Ashley Madison data dump reveals emails, source code for websites

Avid Life Media may have a hard time recovering from this one, according to a security expert

Aug 20, 2015 3 mins

Hiring an information security vendor? Use these best practices.

Companies should take great care when hiring a party that will be granted access to its most sensitive systems and data

Aug 20, 2015 6 mins

Vulnerability in enterprise-managed iOS devices puts business data at risk

App settings deployed through mobile device management products can be read by other apps

Aug 20, 2015 3 mins

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Microsoft issues out-of-band patch for critical Internet Explorer flaw

Hitting a specially crafted malicious website can give attackers the same rights as the logged-in user of the machine

Aug 19, 2015 2 mins

Microsoft Security

How Adblock Plus could work as malware protection

Payloads can't be delivered if you don't see them.

Aug 19, 2015 3 mins

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