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Who's using your data? New technology to track how your private data is used online Posted: 13 Jun 2014 10:07 AM PDT By now, most people feel comfortable conducting financial transactions on the Web. The cryptographic schemes that protect online banking and credit card purchases have proven their reliability over decades. As more of our data moves online, a more pressing concern may be its inadvertent misuse by people authorized to access it. Every month seems to bring another story of private information accidentally leaked by governmental agencies or vendors of digital products or services.

Smart transportation systems for U.S. freeways: Guarding against 'Carmageddon' cyberattacks Posted: 11 Jun 2014 06:30 AM PDT The tightly integrated computing and networking systems required to turn the nation's freeways in "smart transportation systems" are currently under development. The efforts of the Smart Roads Cyber-Physical Systems project to identify cyber attacks against these systems and to develop software to protect them is dramatized by the video scenario "Mitigating Carmageddon" featured at the SmartAmerica Expo in Washington DC.

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