Abstract :
Topics include hackers stealing data for up to 80 million US insurance customers, mobile systems starting to use advanced technologies to improve cellular telephony, 19,000 French websites suffering cybervandalism in the wake of the country\´s recent terrorist attacks, researchers discovering a security flaw that could let hackers eavesdrop on cell calls, the US government requiring faster speeds for broadband services over ISPs\´ objections, researchers developing a poker-winning application, scientists developing a way to make supercomputers more efficient and powerful by changing the way they perform checkpointing, a new head-mounted display that projects images directly onto users\´ eyes, a new RAM approach could enable ultrafast smartphones, a Linux bug representing a major Internet threat, several big technology firms settling a lawsuit over accusations that they conspired to limit workers\´ wages, and a list of 2014\´s "worst" passwords having a familiar look.
Keywords :
ANSSI; Adobe Systems; Agence Nationale de la Sécurité des Systèmes d´Information; Anthem Inc.; Apple; Avegant Inc.; Cepheus; Charlie Hebdo; DLP; Devesh Tiwari; FCC; Federal Communications Commission; France; French Defense Ministry; GNU C Library; Ghost; Glyph headset; Google; Intel; Intuit; Karsten Nohl; Kickstarter; Linux; Lucasfilm; Mark Burnett; Michael Devine; Morgan Slain; Nash equilibrium; OLCF; Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility; Oak Ridge National Laboratory; Pixar Animation Studios; Qualys; RRAM; Rice University; SS7; Saurabh Gupta; Signaling System 7; SplashData; Texas hold ´em poker; Tobias Engel; US District Court Judge Lucy Koh; University of Alberta; Voice over LTE; Wi-Fi Calling; and HD Voice; artificial intelligence; broadband; cellular; checkpointing; counterfactual regret minimization; digital-light-processing; display technology; game theory; glibc; lawsuit; lazy checkpointing; mobile; passwords; perfect information games; privacy; professor Michael Bowling; resistive random-access memory; security; settlement; silicon oxide; supercomputers; supercomputing; terrorism; vulnerability;
