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Images, Codes Could Provide Secure Alternative to Multiple Device Password Systems

Dec. 23, 2015 — A system using images and a one-time numerical code could provide a secure and easy to use alternative to multi-factor systems dependent on hardware ... read more

Let Go My Info: People Are Info-Egoists When It Comes to Their Privacy

Dec. 15, 2015 — People are much more concerned about sharing their own private information with third-party app developers than they are about revealing their friends' data, according to ... read more

Swedish Researchers Reveal Security Hole

Dec. 18, 2015 — Quantum cryptography is considered a fully secure encryption method, but researchers have discovered that this is not always the case. They found that energy-time entanglement -- the method that ... read more

WiFi Signals Can Be Exploited to Detect Attackers

Dec. 18, 2015 — Physical attacks on devices connected to the Internet can be detected by analysing WiFi signals, computer scientists ... read more

Encryption Technologies for the Era of Quantum Computers: Effective Protection for Microdevices

Dec. 18, 2015 — Engineers have developed encryption technologies for practical applications to protect microdevices from hacker attacks conducted by quantum ... read more

Quantum Spin on Molecular Computers

Dec. 2, 2015 — If quantum computers existed, they would revolutionize computing as we know it. Based on fundamental properties of matter, the potential power of these theoretical workhorses would solve problems in ... read more

Researchers Confirm 'Realistic' Answer to Quantum Network Puzzle

Nov. 20, 2015 — Scientists have discovered new evidence to support the development of scalable and secure high rate ... read more

Email Security Improving, but Far from Perfect

Nov. 19, 2015 — Email security helps protect some of our most sensitive data: password recovery confirmations, financial data, confidential correspondences, and more. According to a new report, email security is ... read more

Shields Up: Researchers Are Making the Internet More Secure

Nov. 5, 2015 — Scientists are developing a service that can sniff out, ward off and protect against large-scale online attacks known as Distributed Denial of Service, or DDoS, ... read more

Focusing on User Habits Key to Preventing Email Phishing, According to Research

Nov. 11, 2015 — The cumulative number of successful phishing cyberattacks has risen sharply over the last decade, and in 2014 that figure surged past the total US ... read more

Malware, Trojans And Viruses: What's The Difference, Anyway?

What Might Apple Be Crafting In Its Secret Development Lab?

Suspect Arrested In UK Over VTech Data Breach

Artificial Intelligence Will Be Safe And Open If Elon Musk Can Help It

Comfort Is Important in Identification: Bank Identification Is the Most Trusted Method, Passwords Come Second

Dec. 10, 2015 — A study about user attitudes to different personal identification methods has been conducted. It concludes that the most popular identification methods were internet banking access codes and ... read more

Closing a Malware Security Loophole

Dec. 7, 2015 — An add-on for antivirus software that can scan across a computer network and trap malicious activity missed by the system firewall is being developed by an international team. The research raises the ... read more

Online Tracking More Common Than Most Realize

Nov. 10, 2015 — Think your web browsing is private? A new study of one million top websites finds that 88 percent reveal user data to third parties, often without the user's ... read more

Potential Security Hole in Genomic Data Sharing Network Identified

Oct. 29, 2015 — Sharing genomic information among researchers is critical to the advance of biomedical research. Yet genomic data contains identifiable information and, in the wrong hands, poses a risk to individual ... read more

Researchers Find Vulnerabilities in Use of Certificates for Web Security

Oct. 28, 2015 — A new study offers the first end-to-end evaluation of the Web's certificate revocation ecosystem, which includes website administrators that obtain and revoke certificates, certificate ... read more

Cyberattacks Studied Through the Lens of EEG and Eye Tracking

Oct. 23, 2015 — Researchers tested users’ abilities to detect malware and phishing attacks while measuring the neurophysiological behavior underlying these ... read more

Smart Car Cyberattack Warning: Flaws Found in Security Systems

Oct. 20, 2015 — How Australia acts today will determine the security and safety of driverless cars, autonomous vehicles and intelligent transport systems in the future, with academics warning there is a risk of ... read more

Think Again Before Tapping the Install Button for That App

Oct. 17, 2015 — Multitasking when using mobile devices creates stress and increases the potential for choosing unsafe apps, new research shows. A new study examined the conditions under which mobile device users are ... read more

Think Twice About Android Root

Oct. 13, 2015 — In recent years the practice of Android rooting, that is the process of allowing an Android phone or tablet to bypass restrictions set by carriers, operating systems or hardware manufacturers, has ... read more

Is Your Digital Information More at Risk Today Than It Was Ten Years Ago?

Oct. 13, 2015 — Researchers say that cybersecurity breeches are not happening more frequently than they did a decade ago. And these data breaches in general are not growing in ... read more

New Research Method Identifies Stealth Attacks on Complicated Computer Systems

Oct. 13, 2015 — Computer scientists are unveiling a novel approach to discovering stealth attacks on computers. The scientists' secret formula in finding a stealth attack is in their algorithms. With specific ... read more

New Tool Expands Tracking of Personal Data on the Web

Oct. 9, 2015 — Researchers have developed a second-generation tool called 'Sunlight' that matches user-tailored ads and recommendations to tidbits of information supplied by users at a greater scale and ... read more

Theoretical Computer Science Provides Answers to Data Privacy Problem

Oct. 7, 2015 — The promise of big data lies in researchers' ability to mine massive datasets for insights that can save lives, improve services and inform our understanding of the world.These data may be ... read more

Identifying Problems With National Identifiers

Sep. 29, 2015 — A team of researchers in two experiments was able to decrypt more than 23,000 RRNs using both computation and logical reasoning. The findings suggest that, while such identifiers are encrypted to ... read more

Scientists Stop and Search Malware Hidden in Shortened Urls on Twitter

Sep. 25, 2015 — Cyber-criminals are taking advantage of real-world events with high volumes of traffic on Twitter in order to post links to websites which contain ... read more

Information Handling by Some Health Apps Not as Secure as It Should Be

Sep. 24, 2015 — Some health apps that have been clinically accredited may not have been complying with principles of data protection, according to research. In some instances health apps were found to be sending ... read more

Protecting Identities in a Sea of Big Data

Sep. 23, 2015 — A computer scientist will use three grants to develop approaches to safeguarding sensitive genetic information. Along with co-researchers, he will systematically evaluate potential privacy breaches ... read more

Quantum Teleportation: World Record of 100 Kilometers

Sep. 22, 2015 — Researchers have 'teleported' or transferred quantum information carried in light particles over 100 kilometers (km) of optical fiber, four times farther than the previous ... read more

'SafePay': First Anti-Fraud System to Use Existing Credit Card Readers

Sep. 21, 2015 — For the first time, researchers have developed an inexpensive, secure method to prevent mass credit card fraud using existing magnetic card readers. The novel technique -- called SafePay -- works by ... read more

Watch Out: If You've Got a Smart Watch, Hackers Could Get Your Data

Sep. 10, 2015 — Using a homegrown app on a Samsung Gear Live smart watch, researchers were able to guess what a user was typing through data 'leaks' produced by the motion sensors on smart watches. The ... read more

Thursday, December 10, 2015

Comfort is important in identification: Bank identification is the most trusted method, passwords come second

Monday, December 7, 2015

Closing a malware security loophole

Tuesday, November 10, 2015

Online tracking more common than most realize

Thursday, October 29, 2015

Potential security hole in genomic data sharing network identified

Wednesday, October 28, 2015

Researchers find vulnerabilities in use of certificates for Web security

Friday, October 23, 2015

Cyberattacks studied through the lens of EEG and eye tracking

Tuesday, October 20, 2015

Smart car cyberattack warning: Flaws found in security systems

Saturday, October 17, 2015

Think again before tapping the install button for that app

Tuesday, October 13, 2015

Friday, October 9, 2015

New tool expands tracking of personal data on the Web

Wednesday, October 7, 2015

Theoretical computer science provides answers to data privacy problem

Tuesday, September 29, 2015

Identifying problems with national identifiers

Friday, September 25, 2015

Scientists stop and search malware hidden in shortened urls on Twitter

Thursday, September 24, 2015

Information handling by some health apps not as secure as it should be

Wednesday, September 23, 2015

Protecting identities in a sea of big data

Tuesday, September 22, 2015

Quantum teleportation: World record of 100 kilometers

Monday, September 21, 2015

'SafePay': First anti-fraud system to use existing credit card readers

Thursday, September 10, 2015

Monday, August 24, 2015

Issues surrounding security tools for software developers

Thursday, August 20, 2015

Social security, social safety

Tuesday, August 18, 2015

Securing data from tomorrow's supercomputers

Thursday, August 13, 2015

Eleven security flaws found in popular internet browsers

Wednesday, August 12, 2015

Computers: Protecting your cloud

Tuesday, August 11, 2015

Paving the way for a faster quantum computer

Tuesday, August 4, 2015

Monday, August 3, 2015

Small tilt in magnets makes them viable memory chips

Thursday, July 30, 2015

Research could play major role in curbing illegal ivory sales

Wednesday, July 29, 2015

Shoring up Tor: Researchers mount successful attacks against popular anonymity network -- and show how to prevent them

Tuesday, July 28, 2015

Cellphones can steal data from 'air-gapped computers'

Wednesday, July 22, 2015

Computer security tools for journalists lacking in a post-Snowden world

Thursday, July 9, 2015

Why organizations fight data breaches differently

Thursday, July 2, 2015

Encryption made easier: Just talk like a parent

Monday, June 29, 2015

Wednesday, June 24, 2015

Monitoring Chinese industry 4.0 technology and patents

Tuesday, June 2, 2015

Brain's reaction to certain words could replace passwords

Tuesday, May 26, 2015

Advance in quantum error correction

Thursday, May 21, 2015

Time to move beyond 'Medieval' cyber security approach, expert says

Wednesday, May 20, 2015

Monday, May 11, 2015

Electronic security tag for protecting valuable shipments

Thursday, May 7, 2015

Researchers hack a teleoperated surgical robot to reveal security flaws

Thursday, April 30, 2015

Online voting a step closer thanks to breakthrough in security technology

Tuesday, April 28, 2015

Advancing security and trust in reconfigurable devices

Wednesday, April 22, 2015

Thursday, April 16, 2015

Fighting the next generation of cyberattacks

Wednesday, April 15, 2015

Quantum cryptography at the speed of light: Researchers design first all-photonic repeaters

Tuesday, April 14, 2015

Increase seen in data breaches of health information

Wednesday, April 8, 2015

Encryption for everyone

Thursday, April 2, 2015

HIV spreads like internet malware and should be treated earlier

Wednesday, April 1, 2015

Quantum teleportation on a chip: Significant step towards ultra-high speed quantum computers

Thursday, March 26, 2015

Monday, March 23, 2015

Friday, March 20, 2015

New approach uses 'twisted light' to increase efficiency of quantum cryptography systems

Friday, March 13, 2015

Mobile quarantine station for malicious android apps

Thursday, March 12, 2015

Wednesday, March 11, 2015

Guarantees for online anonymity?

Tuesday, March 10, 2015

Find out what your apps are really doing

Thursday, March 5, 2015

Security in a smart world

Wednesday, March 4, 2015

Strength in numbers: First-ever quantum device that detects and corrects its own errors

Friday, February 27, 2015

Tuesday, February 24, 2015

Sensor-packed smartphones can read your mood, guard your data, and wreak havoc in the wrong hands

Monday, February 16, 2015

Criminologist 'hacks' the hacker

Saturday, February 14, 2015

Social network analysis privacy tackled

Friday, February 13, 2015

Correlations of quantum particles help in distinguishing physical processes

Tuesday, February 10, 2015

Security gaps found in 39,890 online databases containing customer data

Wednesday, February 4, 2015

Security: Protecting customers charging electric vehicles on smart electricity grids

Monday, February 2, 2015

Safe production in Industry 4.0

Thursday, January 8, 2015

Wednesday, January 7, 2015

Doing more with less: Steering a quantum path to improved internet security

Monday, December 22, 2014

Wednesday, December 17, 2014

Privacy policies good for big business, not so good for consumers

Tuesday, December 16, 2014

First real-world trial of impact of patient-controlled access to electronic medical records

Monday, December 15, 2014

Fraud-proof credit cards possible with quantum physics

Wednesday, November 26, 2014

Global quantum communications: No longer the stuff of fiction?

Tuesday, November 25, 2014

Bitcoin, virtual money: User's identity can be revealed much easier than thought

Thursday, November 20, 2014

Don't get hacked! Research shows how much we ignore online warnings

Friday, November 14, 2014

Smartphones team-up with QR codes for secure 3-D displays

Thursday, November 13, 2014

Self-repairing software tackles malware

Tuesday, November 11, 2014

Twisted light waves sent across Vienna

Friday, November 7, 2014

Cybersecurity experts discover lapses in Heartbleed bug fix

Wednesday, November 5, 2014

New research shows vulnerability in mobile phones’ applications offering voice communication security

Friday, October 31, 2014

Raising cryptography's standards

Saturday, October 25, 2014

The right to privacy in a big data world: When properly understood, privacy rules essential, experts say

Tuesday, October 21, 2014

Cyber protection developed for supply chains

Thursday, October 16, 2014

Even the latest malware detection systems can be bypassed

Wednesday, October 15, 2014

How can we be effectively warned not to give away our information online?