By Eduard Kovacs on May 07, 2021
Some DNS resolvers are affected by a vulnerability that can be exploited to launch distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against authoritative DNS servers, a group of researchers warned this week.
The flaw, dubbed TsuNAME, was discovered by researchers at SIDN Labs (the R&D team of the registry for .nl domains), InternetNZ (the registry for .nz domains), and the Information Science Institute at the University of Southern California.
Impacted organizations have been notified and given 90 days to take action before the vulnerability was disclosed. Google and Cisco, both of which provide widely used DNS services, have deployed patches for TsuNAME, but the researchers believe many servers are still vulnerable to attacks.
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IMAGE: TACC s Ranch supercomputer, a long-term data mass storage system, is safely preserving over three petabytes of data from the Arecibo radio telescope. Ranch is an allocated resource of the Extreme. view more
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Millions of people have seen footage of the famed Arecibo radio telescope s collapse in December 2020. What they would not have seen from those videos was Arecibo s data center, located outside the danger zone. It stores the golden copy of the telescope s data the original tapes, hard drives, and disk drives of sky scans since the 1960s.
Now, a new partnership will make sure that about three petabytes, or 3,000 terabytes, of telescope data is securely backed up off-site and made accessible to astronomers around the world, who will be able to use it to continue Arecibo Observatory s legacy of discovery and innovation.
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LOS ANGELES – April 14, 2021 – USC Games, North America’s No. 1 game design program, collaborating with long-term partner, Jam City will feature the game designers and developers of tomorrow at their annual USC Games Expo, the largest school-hosted gaming event in the world. Building on last year’s highly successfully livestreamed event, returning host Geoff Keighley, will launch the multi-hour event that will premiere on May 15
th, 2021 at 12PM PST on twitch.tv/USCGames. The show will feature over 70 games made entirely via distributed development by students and teams spread across the globe.
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Dave Eastman, the Director of the
Viterbi Startup Garage, a startup incubator that is run by the University of Southern California, out of its location in Marina Del Rey. Dave told us a bit more about the Viterbi Startup Garage and several other associated efforts there at USC centered around the startup ecosystem.
What is Viterbi Startup Garage?
Dave Eastman: Viterbi is the School of Engineering. Although most people think that most startups come from the Marshall School of Business, they come from the Engineering School as well. The Startup Garage is located physically in Marina Del Rey, in the twin tower on Admiralty. It s the older 11 to12 story, 1960 s building. The primary tenant in one of those buildings is the Information Sciences Institute, which is part of the Viterbi School of Engineering, and we have some of their space. The Startup Garage is an incubator which gives preference to USC teams, or startups that are USC affilia
Mayank Kejriwal is a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, and a Research Lead at the USC Information Sciences Institute. Dr. Kejriwal s research focuses on knowledge graphs, an exciting area of Artificial Intelligence and data analytics research that has found widespread applications in e-commerce and industry, health informatics, crisis response, social media analysis and AI for social good. Dr. Kejriwal s research has been applied to difficult problems such as fighting human trafficking. Dr. Kejriwal is co-author of an MIT Press textbook on knowledge graphs, and is also author of Domain-specific Knowledge Graph Construction (Springer, 2019) which has been downloaded thousands of times.