August 2012
51 posts
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Side-Channel-Attack on Wetware.
On the Feasibility of Side-Channel Attacks with Brain-Computer Interfaces
Conference: USENIX Security ‘12 Ivan Martinovic, University of Oxford; Doug Davies, Mario Frank, and Daniele Perito, University of California, Berkeley; Tomas Ros, University of Geneva; Dawn Song, University of California, Berkeley
Slides & audio can be found here.
Abstract:
Brain computer interfaces (BCI)...
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Watchvideohall:
What the internet was created for
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BBC News - High-frequency trading and the $440m... →
nodalpoint:
First, there are algorithms designed not to lose money while executing a trade that’s been placed by a human. If you try to buy a large block of shares all at once, for instance, you might find that there aren’t enough potential sellers and you’ll have to wait for others to show up. Other computers may see that you’ve got this large unfilled order and exploit it, perhaps by snapping...
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Listen to the Woz! →
“I really worry about everything going to the cloud,” he said. “I think it’s going to be horrendous. I think there are going to be a lot of horrible problems in the next five years.”
He added: “With the cloud, you don’t own anything. You already signed it away” through the legalistic terms of service with a cloud provider that computer users must...
Emptyage: Yes, I was hacked. Hard. →
emptyage:
So maybe you saw my Twitter going nuts tonight. Or you saw Gizmodo’s Twitter account blow up. Or you saw this in AllThingsD. Or this in the DailyDot. Although embarrassing, Twitter was the least of it. In short, someone gained entry to my iCloud account, used it to remote wipe all of my…
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WatchEdinburgh Fringe 2012
Simply, the biggest arts festival in the world.