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STEPS FORWARD: Math geniuses strive to make a pivotal advance — by obfuscating software code

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Tatsuaki Okamoto, director of NTT Research’s Cryptography and Information Security (CIS) Lab , and Dr. Amit Sahai, professor of computer science at UCLA Samueli School of Engineering and director of UCLA Center for Encrypted Functionalities (CEF). This, in fact, is the core security challenge companies face defending their business networks.

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GUEST ESSAY. Everyone should grasp these facts about cyber threats that plague digital commerce

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This article will walk you through the various types of malware, how to identify and prevent a malware attack, and how to mitigate the risks. Ransomware programs gain access to a computer’s file system and execute a payload to encrypt all data. Unfortunately, most of the data it encrypted was lost for good due to faulty code.