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Keeping up with Quantum Technology | Quantum Computing

Everteam

While everyone is digging deep into the Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Blockchain and many other new digital transformation phenomena, Quantum Computing has been transformed from theory to reality. Let’s move to how it’s related to computers. What is Quantum Computing? A Quick Quantum look. Too much physics?

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More Attacks against Computer Automatic Update Systems

Schneier on Security

Studying this case, our experts found other samples that used similar algorithms. Now we learn that six other companies were targeted in the same operation. As we mentioned before, ASUS was not the only company used by the attackers.

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Sealed U.S. Court Records Exposed in SolarWinds Breach

Krebs on Security

Nicholas Weaver , a lecturer at the computer science department at University of California, Berkeley, said the court document system doesn’t hold documents that are classified for national security reasons. “Due to the nature of the attacks, the review of this matter and its impact is ongoing.”

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On Blockchain Voting

Schneier on Security

While current election systems are far from perfect, Internet- and blockchain-based voting would greatly increase the risk of undetectable, nation-scale election failures.Online voting may seem appealing: voting from a computer or smart phone may seem convenient and accessible.

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Meet Bluetana, the Scourge of Pump Skimmers

Krebs on Security

“ Bluetana ,” a new mobile app that looks for Bluetooth-based payment card skimmers hidden inside gas pumps, is helping police and state employees more rapidly and accurately locate compromised fuel stations across the nation, a study released this week suggests. student and principal author of the study.

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

The Last Watchdog

Related: How Multi Party Computation is disrupting encrypti on An accomplished violinist, Einstein, no doubt, appreciated the symmetry of his metaphor. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering — puts us one step closer to a working iO prototype. Sahai recently gave this presentation outlining the technical aspects.

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Banking on mainframe-led digital transformation for financial services

IBM Big Data Hub

Before the internet and cloud computing , and before smartphones and mobile apps, banks were shuttling payments through massive electronic settlement gateways and operating mainframes as systems of record. Complex analytical queries atop huge datasets on the mainframe can eat up compute budgets and take hours or days to run.