“ We told election officials, essentially, that you should assume this information is already out there.... All the hackers would need is physical access to the systems because they are not supposed to be connected to the internet.“ The door is now wide open, ” Hursti said.... “ The only question is, how do you sneak in the door?...

At 2. 51pm on Nov 24, members of an open-source software project received an alarming email

“ It’s a game-changer in that the environment we have talked about existing now is a reality, ” said Matt Masterson, a former top election security official in the Trump administration.... While it's not clear how the copies came to be released at the event, they were posted online and made available for public download.... The release gives hackers a “ practice environment ” to probe for vulnerabilities they could exploit and a road map to avoid defenses, Hursti said....

software used across industry and government.... Meyers and security expert Marcus Hutchins said

A software vulnerability exploited in the online game “ Minecraft ” is rapidly emerging as a major

initially scheduled to go up in 2007.In 2013, experts found contamination in its fuel system

opening an investigation into 2.4 million Tesla vehicles with the carmaker’s full self-driving software

The station’s position is key for getting power from solar panels and for communications with space support teams back on Earth.... “ There was such euphoria( after Nauka successfully docked with the space station), people relaxed to some extent, ” Rogozin said in a radio interview Friday.... It will be Boeing’s second attempt to reach the 250-mile-high station before putting astronauts on board....

“ Others, like system-security-penetration testing firms and ‘grey hat' entities, have incentive to stockpile them.... “ On the other hand, publicly disclosing a vulnerability that isn't known by one's adversaries gives them the upper hand, because the adversary could then protect against any attack using that vulnerability, while still keeping an inventory of vulnerabilities of which only it is aware of in reserve.... In that case, stockpiling would be the best option.” Of the more than 200 r

DURBAN: Determined to use her skills to fight inequality, South African computer scientist Raesetje Sefala set to work to build algorithms flagging poverty hotspots – developing datasets she hopes will help target aid, new housing or clinics. From crop analysis to medical diagnostics, artificial intelligence( AI) is already used in essential tasks worldwide, but Sefala and a growing number of fellow African developers are pioneering it to tackle their continent’s particular challenges. Local kno