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Security officials to spy on chat rooms

November 24, 2004 CIA is quietly funding research into surveillance of chat rooms to help identify terrorists, News.com has learned. TAGS: chat room, memorandum of understanding, Marc Rotenberg, Electronic Privacy Information Center, surveillance, proposal, agency, research, monitoring, terrorism, document, U.S., security

Cisco hits back at flaw researcher

July 27, 2005 Networking giant and ISS ask a court to silence the security expert who described how attackers could take over Cisco routers. TAGS: Black Hat, Cisco Systems Inc., Cisco IOS, presentation, networking company, researcher, flaw, attack, router, conference, VoIP, security, research, networking, operating system

Microsoft dishes out academic grants

February 16, 2006 Software giant allocates $1 million in funding to academic researchers in countries around the world. TAGS: RFP, Trustworthy Computing, curriculum, grant, software engineering, local search, proposal, researcher, university, winner, recipient, research, information technology, Microsoft Corp., security

Coalition launches ID theft center

June 28, 2006 A group of corporations, universities and law enforcement agencies looks to counter identity theft. TAGS: identity theft, law enforcement agency, coalition, corporation, center, research, effect, information technology, security

IM threats rising sharply, reports confirm

April 5, 2005 Instant-messaging attacks increased 250 percent in the first quarter compared with the same period last year, new research finds. TAGS: IM threat, Akonix Systems, IM Network, IMLogic, consortium, incident, IM, threat, attack, workplace, increase, Time Warner Inc., research, security, virus, e-mail

Symantec beats the research drum

November 15, 2005 The company is making research a higher priority. It is investing more resources in the group and is more aggressive about the development of technology in-house. TAGS: Symantec Corp., VERITAS Software Corp., Mountain View, patent, merger, R&D, research, researcher, California, software company, network connection, acquisition, security

A sense of insecurity

March 2, 2005 How three researchers rocked the world of cryptography last month by breaking a widely used method for digital signatures. TAGS: SHA-1, collision, round, weakness, algorithm, operation, researcher, professor, research, attack, function, security

Security research suggests Linux has fewer flaws

December 14, 2004 Four years of research by a code-analysis firm finds that the latest open-source OS beats commercial software for quality. TAGS: Coverity, Linux, flaw, source code, Linux kernel, open source, analysis, research, operating system, Apple Computer, Microsoft Corp., Apple Mac OS, Apple Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, Apple Macintosh, security
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