Lessons cyberdefense may be able to teach us about managing Ebola

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Monday, October 20th, 2014
Lessons cyberdefense may be able to teach us about managing Ebola
We in the computer world are all too familiar with what we’ve long called “viruses,” the malware that infects our machines and networks.

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Android apps downloaded over 6.3 billion times still vulnerable to FREAK
A total of 1,228 popular Android apps found in the Google Play store are still vulnerable to a FREAK attack, FireEye says. Research published on Tuesday by the firm’s security team disclosed just how vulnerable both Android and iOS apps still are to the FREAK bug.
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Did You Know You Had Diabetes? It’s All Over the Internet
Dan Abate doesn’t have diabetes nor is he aware of any obvious link to the disease. Try telling that to data miners. The 42-year-old information technology worker’s name recently showed up in a database of millions of people with “diabetes interest” sold by Acxiom Corp.
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The Dawn of the Flying Smartphone
Zoltan Istvan is a futurist, journalist, and author of the novel The Transhumanist Wager. He writes an occasional column for Motherboard in which he ruminates on the future beyond natural human ability. Over the next decade, we’ll see the rise of lightweight drones that fit in your pocket.
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