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Chinese economic espionage: Mixed signals at year’s end – American Enterprise Institute


American Enterprise Institute

Chinese economic espionage: Mixed signals at year's end
American Enterprise Institute
As 2015 comes to an end, some three months after the September summit in which the US and China agreed not to “knowingly” conduct cyber-related operations to steal intellectual property – including trade secrets – mixed signals cloud any judgment as to …

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50 years ago today, the Northeast went dark

The Northeast blackout of 1965, which occurred 50 years ago today, was one of those “Where were you?” historical events that those who lived through it will never forget.

I was at home in North Attleboro, Mass., and while only eight years old, remember the blackout vividly. About 30 million people living in Ontario, New York, New Jersey and the New England states sparing Maine were plunged into darkness for up to 13 hours.

This clip from NBC News captures both the drama of evening – Cold War fears were in full force – and the primitiveness of reporting under such conditions 50 years ago.

What caused the outage? From Wikipedia:

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Network World Paul McNamara

Practical SHA-1 Collision Months, Not Years, Away – Threatpost


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Practical SHA-1 Collision Months, Not Years, Away
Threatpost
The most notorious MD5 collision was pulled off by the attackers behind the Flame malware. Like a state-sponsored attack, Flame used a MD5 collision to sign malware as if it were coming from Microsoft, and as a result, would be trusted. The Flame

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Comcast planning nationwide gigabit broadband in 2 years. What will it cost?

A Comcast executive says the company is currently testing technology based on the DOCSIS 3.1 standard, which can transmit data at rates up to 10 Gigabits per second (Gbps) in ideal environments, and is aiming to deploy the technology on a nationwide basis by 2018, according to a Fierce Cable article published last week

Comcast vice president of network architecture Robert Howald told Fierce Cable that the technology will enable the company to offer customers broadband speeds of 1 Gbps “and higher.” From the article:

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Network World Colin Neagle