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John David McAfee (/ ˈmækəfiː / MAK-ə-fee; [5][6] 18 September 1945 – 23 June 2021) was a British-American computer programmer, businessman, and two-time presidential candidate who unsuccessfully sought the Libertarian Party nomination for president of the United States in 2016 and in 2020. In 1987, he wrote the first commercial anti ...
In February 2024, a malicious backdoor was introduced to the Linux utility xz within the liblzma library in versions 5.6.0 and 5.6.1 by an account using the name "Jia Tan". [b][2] The backdoor gives an attacker who possesses a specific Ed448 private key remote code execution capabilities on the affected Linux system.
Backdoor (computing) A backdoor is a typically covert method of bypassing normal authentication or encryption in a computer, product, embedded device (e.g. a home router), or its embodiment (e.g. part of a cryptosystem, algorithm, chipset, or even a "homunculus computer"—a tiny computer-within-a-computer such as that found in Intel's AMT ...
Target, like many others in retail, was closing the books on a tough holiday shopping season. Its fourth quarter same-store sales fell 1.5%, store traffic rose a slim 0.2%, and earnings came in at ...
Brian Kelly lost his third consecutive season opener as LSU coach with the Tigers falling to USC on Sunday night in the Vegas Kickoff Classic. The loss extended a dubious streak for the Tigers ...
Wired, The New York Times, and The Observer reported that the data-set had included information on 50 million Facebook users. [35] [36] While Cambridge Analytica claimed it had only collected 30 million Facebook user profiles, [37] Facebook later confirmed that it actually had data on potentially over 87 million users, [38] with 70.6 million of those people from the United States. [39]
Adversarial machine learning is the study of the attacks on machine learning algorithms, and of the defenses against such attacks. [1] A survey from May 2020 exposes the fact that practitioners report a dire need for better protecting machine learning systems in industrial applications.
PRISM is a code name for a program under which the United States National Security Agency (NSA) collects internet communications from various U.S. internet companies. [1][2][3] The program is also known by the SIGAD US-984XN. [4][5] PRISM collects stored internet communications based on demands made to internet companies such as Google LLC and ...