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Twitterfeed

I found a new service which promises to publish every 30 minutes any RSS Feed to a Twitter account. It is called “Twitterfeed” . Let’s see if this post reaches my Twitter account : http://twitter.com/sorinmustaca

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SHA-3: second round in the cryptographers’ Olympiad

Source: Heise The competition run by the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to find the next generation of cryptographic hash functions has gone into its second round. Fourteen algorithms are still vying to be crowned in 2012 as the next standard for cryptographic hash functions, SHA-3 (Secure Hash Algorithm). I am curious […]

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Avira has a Risk Level

http://techblog.avira.com/risk-level/en/ Avira Risk Level definitions There is an average level computed for the last 30 days for both malware and phishing. The alert level is computed like this: 1 Normal activity – less than -50 percent 2 Increased activity – between -50 and -25 percent 3 Suspicious activity – between -25 and 25 percent 4 […]