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KarDo software learns by observing administrators
 Researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology developed new software system, called KarDo, which can automatically perform same jobs across different computers.
Government is seeking public comment about research in cybersecurity
 The White House has identified tailored trustworthy spaces, moving target, and cybereconomic incentives as themes for encouraging future game-changing research and development in cybersecurity for the federal government.
Nanotube Transistor Will Help Us Bond With Machines
 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) researchers have developed a transistor, which they say could be a step toward making prosthetic devices that can be wired directly into a person's nervous system.
Modern automobiles vulnerable at hacker attacks
 Computer scientists alert that automobiles, which will be increasingly connected to the Internet in the near future, could be vulnerable to hacker attacks.
Web servers used in DoS attack
 Researchers from Imperva have uncovered a botnet that uses compromised Web servers instead of personal computers to launch denial of service attacks.
Experts developed protection from Blue Pill rootkit
 Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed software, called HyperSafe, that can protect VMM (virtual machine monitor) from malicious Blue Pill rootkit threats.
Splunk customers’ passwords revealed
 After some debug information leaked on Splunk organization servers, passwords of customers were revealed.
Botnet takedowns did not reduce number of spam
 Google’s Postini team reports that, despite recent botnet takedowns, volumes of spam circulating online remained the same.
Meta data allows XSS attacks
Security expert Tyler Reguly from nCircle organization says that data fields for storing meta information offer plenty of possibilities for XSS (cross-site scripting) attacks.
Malicious PDF file could crash Windows systems
 A security researcher Didier Stevens has found a way to run arbitrary program code on computers with Windows operating system by embedding it in a malicious PDF file.
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