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The dark side of the coming chatbot revolution
Artificial intelligence is coming to a messaging app near you. Google has been working on a messaging-based chat bot for a year, according to …
It’s Way Too Easy to Hack the Hospital
In the fall of 2013, Billy Rios flew from his home in California to Rochester, Minn., for an assignment at the Mayo Clinic, the …
Cyber Threat Underscores Safety of Owning Texas Land, Perot Says
The growing menace of hackers gaining access to the financial system concerns Texas billionaire Ross Perot Jr. enough that he’s keeping key records in …
Police seek powers to access browsing history of UK computer users
Police have lobbied the government for the power to view the internet browsing history of every computer user in Britain ahead of the publication …
Family members could be kept alive forever using social media history
Family members could be kept alive forever virtually so that living relatives could interact with their avatars, an academic has suggested. Simon McKeown, a …
System That Checks Air Passengers Against Watchlist Briefly Goes Down
The Department of Homeland Security computer system that checks airline passengers against terror watch lists briefly experienced service disruptions Wednesday evening that led to …
AT&T Wi-Fi hotspot caught injecting ads into web pages
AT&T, which offers public Wi-Fi hotspots across the U.S., was caught putting ads on websites in unusual places by Jonathan Mayer, a lawyer and …
China Hackers Got Past Costly U.S. Computer Security With Ease
The hackers who stole personal data on 4 million government employees from the U.S. Office of Personnel Management sneaked past a sophisticated counter-hacking system …
Israeli Computer Expert Works to Simplify Cyber Security
You want to send a PDF to your colleague, but the information is sensitive. You password-protect the document (encryption) and store it on your …
Traditional anti-virus is dead. Long live the new and improved AV
Over the past several months, Network World has reviewed a host of security programs designed to protect networks from modern advanced persistent threats. These …
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