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Tech News Flash: Friday -- September 30, 2016

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Hacking Elections Is Easy, Study Finds
Early Reviews Fuel High Hopes for Civilization VI
Surviving the Internet's Troll Apocalypse
Google AI Gives More Context to Chinese-to-English Translations
Cisco Battles Shadow Broker Exploits
Black Panther OS Is No Cool Cat
Hackers Get Up Close and Personal With WH Staffer's Email
Project Shield Has Krebs on Security's Back

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Hacking Elections Is Easy, Study Finds
It's no longer a question whether hackers will influence the 2016 U.S.
elections -- only how much they'll be able to sway them. Leaked emails
already have cost a Democratic Party chairperson her job, and the FBI
last month issued a flash warning that foreign cyberadversaries had
breached two state election databases. Those two states -- most likely
Arizona and Illinois -- aren't alone.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83947.html

Early Reviews Fuel High Hopes for Civilization VI
Early hands-on previews of Civilization VI came out Thursday, and those
who had a chance to partake in the turn-based PC game found that it
successfully built on the foundation of the past versions, while
bringing some fresh changes to the experience. It has been 25 years
since the classic debuted to great acclaim, and it seemed that Firaxis
would have to pull out all the stops.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83945.html

Surviving the Internet's Troll Apocalypse
Social media has sharpened humans' age-old appetite for public shaming,
providing a stage and unlimited seating for an endless stream of
immorality plays. Those who share even the simplest identifying details
about themselves are vulnerable to being pushed into the glare of the
spotlight. Anonymity frees many individuals of the consequences they
might face offline for being abusive to others.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83940.html

Google AI Gives More Context to Chinese-to-English Translations
Research at Google on Tuesday launched Google Neural Machine Translation
system, now in production with Chinese to English -- "a notoriously
difficult language pair," according to Quoc V. Le and Mike Schuster,
research scientists on the Google Brain Team. GNMT already is powering
the Google Translate mobile and Web apps for 18 million or so Chinese to
English translations daily.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83941.html

Cisco Battles Shadow Broker Exploits
Cisco has swung into action to combat a hacker group's exploitation of
vulnerabilities in its firmware. The group, known as the "Shadow
Brokers," released online malware and other exploits possibly stolen
from the Equation Group, which is believed to have ties to the U.S.
National Security Agency. Cisco earlier this month disclosed the
vulnerability, even though patches were not yet ready.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83938.html

Black Panther OS Is No Cool Cat
The Black Panther OS is a bare-bones Linux distribution built around the
KDE desktop. The KDE environment itself is not a minimal component, but
how it is integrated within Black Panther gives you an almost-nothing-
there installation until you painstakingly install system tools and
applications, literally piece by piece. Black Panther OS, originally
forked from Mandriva Linux, is now under independent development in
Hungary.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83933.html

Hackers Get Up Close and Personal With WH Staffer's Email
Federal authorities last week launched a probe of a suspected
cyberattack that targeted the private Gmail account of a White House
staffer. The employee's correspondence turned up on the DCleaks
hacktivist site, which earlier this month posted the private emails of
former Secretary of State Colin Powell. The latest dump involves the
private account of White House staffer Ian Mellul.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83935.html

Project Shield Has Krebs on Security's Back
The website of prominent security blogger Brian Krebs is back online
this week after sustaining one of the largest distributed denial of
service attacks in Internet history. DDoS attacks typically disrupt
service at a website by flooding it with junk traffic. In this case,
garbage traffic assaulted Krebs' site at 620 gigabits per second. By
comparison, consumer bandwidth is in the 10-15 megabit per second range;
businesses, 100 Mbps to 1 Gbps.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83932.html

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