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	Black Hat keynote: U.S. should buy up zero day attacks for 10 times going rate Las Vegas -- The U.S. government should pay 10 times the going rate for zero-day software flaws in order to corner the market and then make those vulnerabilities public to render them less potent for attackers, Black hat 2014 attendees were told yesterday. Dan Geer That would reduce the overall threats against Internet traffic in general and cost less than the damage that actual exploits cause, says Dan Geer, who is the chief information security officer at In-Q-Tel, the venture capital arm of the Central Intelligence Agency.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More WHITE PAPER: Cisco Cisco Connected Mobile Experiences (CMX) Amplify customer interactions with Cisco Connected Mobile Experiences. Our platform's Wi-Fi intelligence meets the needs of a growing mobile audience. 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Learn more Five unanswered questions about massive Russian hacker database Lots of questions follow Tuesday's revelation of the amassing of 1.2 billion credentials by Russian hackers Read More IBM/DARPA turn out brain-like 5-billion transistor superchip DARPA-funded IBM researchers today said they have developed a human brain-inspired computer chip loaded with more than 5 billion transistors and 256 million “synapses,” or programmable logic points, analogous to the connections between neurons in the brain.In addition to being one of the world’s largest and most complex computer chips ever produced it requires only a fraction of the electrical power of conventional chips to operate, IBM and Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) stated.+More on Network World: The weirdest, wackiest and coolest sci/tech stories of 2014 (so far!); The weirdest, wackiest and coolest sci/tech stories of 2013+To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More INSIDER Who's Paying for Your Tech Certification? 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