Cryptography Researchers Win ACM Turing Award 2012

This year’s ACM Turing Award has been bestowed to two cryptography researchers from MIT – Shafi Goldwasser and Silvio Micali. The duo has awarded this recognition for pioneering modern cryptography and devising mechanisms to secure internet communications.

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Verizon May Launch Nokia Lumia 928 In April

After doing a success of Nokia Lumia 920, Microsoft is planning to bring a new Windows Phone to the Nokia Lumia series – the Lumia 928. The upcoming Lumia 928 is going to have some addition in its specs, compared to Lumia 920. So far we’ve come to know that Nokia will use aluminum body for the upcoming Lumia 928 and the device will feature Xenon and LED flash with 8-megapixel PureView camera.

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Flash Will Be Enabled In Internet Explorer 10 By Default, Starting Tomorrow

Microsoft has been putting curbs on running Flash websites in Internet Explorer 10. The move, the company had cited, was meant to save the users from getting a non-compatible site running on their touchscreen devices. However, Microsoft has now announced that it will be enabling Flash by default in Internet Explorer 10, starting from tomorrow.

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Facebook Security Officer Reveals Further Details About Recent Malware Attack

Recently, news surfaced that the machines of a number of employees across multiple companies were hacked in malware attacks. The companies included the likes of Apple, Twitter and Facebook. Recently, Facebook’s security chief officer Joe Sullivan has stated that the malware was injected into users’ machines through iPhoneDevSDK.

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Andoid Is The Preffered Platform By Hackers: Report

Despite worries over new and more sophisticated mobile malware, cyber criminals still overwhelmingly prefer the older, more primitive attack techniques. Recently, mobile security company F-Secure has released a report on the status of mobile threats in 2012. According to that report, hackers prefer to target Android platform to spread malware rather than other OS. The security firm said that Android operating system accounted for 79 percent of all malware infections on smartphones, and the threat is multiplying.

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