World's Largest Touchscreen Hacked !

It's gigantic ! It can handle over 100 simultaneous touch points! It has a curvature of 135 degrees! And best of all, it is NOT the newest, insanely expensive gadget to hit the market. Instead, this touchscreen was hacked together with a bunch of PCs, video cameras, projectors and cheap infrared...

U.S. Faces Shortage of Computer Science Graduates Amid Rising Cybersecurity Needs

The United States could soon face a significant shortage of computer science professionals unless it starts graduating more students in this field. At a time when computer hacking and security are critical issues for both the government and the private sector, the U.S. is producing only 9,000...

National Science Foundation Funds Purdue Data-Anonymization Project

A group of researchers from Purdue University has been awarded $1.5 million from the National Science Foundation to help fund an ongoing project that’s investigating how well current techniques for anonymizing data are working and whether there’s a need for better methods. The grant will help the...

After Twitter Hack, NY Times Debates Social Network Security

In the wake of a high profile though harmless cross site scripting attack launched from Twitter.com’s Web site, the New York Times is sponsoring a debate about the security of online social networks that offers some harsh criticism of the micro blogging site. The Gray Lady pulled together top nam...

Windows Access Control Demystified

Hello everybody, We have constructed a logical model of Windows XP access control, in a declarative but executable Datalog format. We have built a scanner that reads access-control configuration information from the Windows registry, file system, and service control manager database, and feeds ra...