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According to the ICS / SCADA expert, Ralph Langner, facilities who adopted NIST's proposal of new environment will not get an adequate level of protection. Langner is a German expert who has discovered how the malicious program Stuxnet targeted Siemens PLC controllers in Iran's nuclear reactors. Also he announced his own proposal for a new security framework for the ICS/SCADA systems.
A new system for secure data transmission while maintaining user privacy
CasellesCarlos Jiménez and Dr. Luis Mengual Galán, researchers at the Universidad Politecnica de Madrid's Facultad de Informática, have developed a system for automatic routing control. The system sets the environment for the data transmission while respecting the privacy of user’s identity.
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A new protocol to preserve the privacy of patients and medical institutions
Health care providers should keep records of diseases and report them to the health authorities so they could potentially prevent cases of infection and epidemics. However there is evidence that show that they do not oblige mentioned rule because of concerns about patient privacy and privacy of the providers of medical care.
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Nanotechnology increase hard disk storage
European researches at MAFIN project developed a magnetic recording medium based on tiny nanospheres. That technology could lead to hard disks that can store more than a thousand billion bits of information in a square inch.
