Abstract :
Topics include governments disrupting two major cyberattack systems, eBay facing investigations into a huge data breach, practical applications emerging for the Internet of Things, the EU\´s top court supporting the "right to be forgotten," police arresting malware suspects in an international cybercrime crackdown, a study showing that facial-recognition algorithms are improving rapidly, MIT using lasers and telescopes to bring high-speed communications to lunar satellite, IBM experimenting with "electronic blood" to power and cool supercomputers, a researcher developing a new technique for baking robot components to make them self-assemble, and Google replacing Apple as the world\´s most valuable brand.
Keywords :
Computer hacking; Computers; Cryptography; Europe; Google; Moon; Terrestrial atmosphere; Apple; Blackshades; BrandZ Top 100 Most Valuable Global Brands 2014; Bruno Michel; Cassidy Wolf; Cisco Systems; Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab; Connected Car Dashboards; CryptoLocker; Daniela Rus; EU; Erik Demaine; Eurojust; European Court of Justice; European Union; Europol; Evgeniy Mikhailovich Bogachev; Ford Motor Co.; Gameover Zeus; Google; Google Spain; HydroPoint Data Systems; IBM; Internet of Things; IoT; LLCD; Lincoln Laboratory; Lunar Laser Communication Demonstration; MIT; Microsoft; Millward Brown; NASA´s Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer; NIST; Operation Tovar; Pirelli; Real-Time Location System; Spanish Data Protection Agency; Splunk; Stanley Healthcare; Trojan; US Federal Bureau of Investigation; US Justice Department; US National Institute of Standards and Technology; WeatherTRAK; botnet; eBay; electronic blood; facial recognition; history of computing; malware; practical applications; privacy; ransomware; robotics; security; self-assembly; supercomputers; the European Cybercrime Center;
