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Cyber warfare overshadows ‘netwar’ concept putting US at risk, new ODNI paper … – FierceGovernmentIT

Cyber warfare overshadows 'netwar' concept putting US at risk, new ODNI paper
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While many government officials are focused on cyberwarfare following a spate of high-profile cyberattacks including the recent Office of Personnel Management data breach allegedly by Chinese hackers, a new paper states that another concept called …

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Programming for all, part 2: From concept to code

Do one thing, and do it well

In our first installment, we wrote several programs that really did nothing more than illustrate a concept. Let’s turn the complexity up a notch and compose a program that actually solves a problem. The problem we are tasked with: given the high temperature of the past three days, compute the average and standard deviation.

To do this, we are going to need to implement an algorithm, the programming equivalent to a set of directions. It gives the major steps that one must take in order to solve a problem, but the details of how are left up to the programmer who implements the algorithm. For our problem at hand, we could write out our algorithm as follows:

  1. Read in three values
  2. Compute the sum of these values
  3. Compute the average by dividing the sum by 3.
  4. Figure out how far each value is from the average.
  5. Add the distances obtained in step four
  6. Take the square root of the value in step five
  7. Divide by the square root of 3

So, let us set out to implement our remedial algorithm in MHF:

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Security concept app steals Android info with no permissions – Android Community


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Security concept app steals Android info with no permissions
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Android security nuts, get your tin foil hats ready. A security researcher at Leviathan Security Group has posted a proof of concept application that can steal massive amounts of personal data when installed on an Android phone or tablet.
"No permissions" Android app allows secret data harvestingZDNet (blog)
Zero-permission Android app exports sensitive dataHelp Net Security
For Android apps, "zero permissions" does not actually mean zero permissionsAndroid Authority
Life of Android (blog)
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