News Briefs

Author

Garber, Lee

Volume

47

Issue

6

fYear

2014

fDate

Jun-14

Firstpage

12

Lastpage

17

Abstract

Topics include ongoing problems caused by the Heartbleed Internet-security flaw, the end of another epic Apple-Samsung patent-related trial, an Internet Explorer bug threatening users of the world´s most popular browser, new laser technology that could quadruple Internet-access speeds, Facebook working on drones and satellites to bring the Internet to remote areas, a US government report that says the Internet of Things could threaten privacy, scientists developing robots that can each other robots to play games, governments paying Microsoft to keep supporting Windows XP, a researcher showing that hackers could attack networked traffic-control equipment and cause gridlock, and police beginning to crowdsource their investigation.

Keywords

Companies; Computer hacking; Computers; Facebook; Internet; Robots; Amazon Web Services; Amnon Yariv; Apple; Ascenta; CRA; California Institute of Technology; Caltech; Canada Revenue Agency; Cesar Cerrudo; CitizenGlobal; Connectivity Lab; Core Infrastructure Initiative; Facebook; FireEye; Heartbleed; IOActive; Internet; Internet Explorer; Internet access; Internet of Things; IoT; Judge Lucy H. Koh; LEEDIR; Large Emergency Event Digital Information Repository; Laser; Linux Foundation; Los Angeles County Sheriff´s Department; Mandiant; Matthew E. Taylor; Microsoft; Netherlands; OpenSSL; Samsung; Santa Barbara County Sheriff´s Department; UK; US Internal Revenue Service; US government; Washington State University; White House; Windows; Windows 7; Windows 8; Windows XP; bandwidth; bug; crowdsourcing; drones; flaw; gridlock; hackers; hardware; law enforcement; lawsuit; mobile; optical networks; patents; police; privacy; robotics; robots teaching robots; satellites; security; semiconductor laser; software engineering; spectral purity; traffic-control equipment; trial; vulnerability;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Computer

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9162

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MC.2014.157

Filename

6838934