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Bloodless bank heist impressed cybercrime experts

...who pulled off a remarkable internationally organized attack."It was pretty ingenious," Pace University computer science professor Darren Hayes said Friday.On the creative side of the heist, a small team of highly skilled hackers penetrated...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/business/2013-05-10/bloodless-bank-heist-impre
Cheating spreads everywhere, but in the end it gets you nowhere

...Technology makes cheating easier, or more tempting, or more devious.At Dartmouth College in 2000, a visiting computer science professor left the answer to a problem on the class' website and showed the Web address on an overhead projector. But...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/opinion/joe-hotchkiss-columns/2012-12-15/cheating-s
As auto technology builds, so does hacking

...or a spy could listen to conversations inside a car, Stefan Savage, a University of California-San Diego computer science professor, said in a telephone interview. He co-wrote a paper last year after discovering ways to hack into cars...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/life/autos/2012-02-09/auto-technology-builds-so-doe
South Carolina audit finds errors in 2010 vote

...local election officials to conduct a vote audit after each election, she said.University of South Carolina computer science professor Duncan Buell, who helped with the League audit, said it found significant problems in eight counties trying...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/government/elections/2011-10-03/south-carolina
Health, safety applications created for phones

...They can range from informative to fun -- part of what gives them market potential, said Robert Jarman, a computer science professor at Augusta State University."It's something that is going to do nothing but grow as the networks and technologies...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/metro/2010-04-28/health-safety-applications-cr
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Driverless military truck lurches from lab to streets

...just trying to win, but we're also trying to advance the topic of safer cars," said Sebastian Thrun, a computer-science professor who leads Stanford University's team. "There are so many other great uses of this technology." Mr. Thrun...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2007/10/07/bus_146511.shtml
Business
Electronic voting faces new scrutiny

...with them. The copies would be rolled into canisters and stored for nearly two years. A Princeton University computer science professor reported this month that he and a pair of graduate students were able to hack into a Diebold electronic voting...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2006/09/24/met_97965.shtml
Metro
Hackers gather at confab to penetrate computers, pick locks, spray pellets

...liabilities. "The ability to do something that's socially unacceptable is always a thrill," says Chris Eagle, a computer science professor at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, Calif. Several rooms away, 17-year-old Dan Beard is readying...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2006/08/07/liv_91676.shtml
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Business news

...found that Apple infringed on three patents held by Mirror Worlds LLC, a company founded by Yale University computer science professor David Gelernter to commercialize his ideas.

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/business/2010-10-05/business-news
Business
Sony's software removal scheme aggravates security hole

...This is a surprisingly bad design from a security standpoint," said Ed Felten, a Princeton University computer science professor who explored the removal program with a graduate student, J. Alex Halderman. "It endangers users in several...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2005/11/16/bus_23255.shtml
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