System Security/Hackers

Researchers at the University of Luxembourg are part of an international team that has proposed the first blockchain system to guarantee proper performance even when more than 51% of the system's computing power is controlled by an…

A consortium of UK cyber security experts including UCL academics is to support global businesses to tackle online threats and protect themselves from cybercrime. The Cyber Readiness for Boards project, which is jointly funded by the…

Software 'CoinEater' of St. Pölten UAS blocks crypto mining, the unwanted access to computer performanceCredit: St. Pölten UAS / Sebastian Schrittwieser Cryptojacking describes the creation of cryptocurrencies by visitors…

secUnity collaboration presents recommendations in Brussels In their secUnity roadmap, 30 renowned European IT security experts of the BMBF-funded secUnity collaboration outlined how digital threats on the European level can be responded…

A thriving marketplace for SSL and TLS certificates--small data files used to facilitate confidential communication between organizations' servers and their clients' computers--exists on a hidden part of the Internet, according to new…

New Purdue University technology makes it easier to follow a criminal's digital footprintCredit: Kathryn Seigfried-Spellar/Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Cybercriminals can run, but they cannot hide from their digital…

UMass Lowell project will develop tech to protect patient privacy LOWELL, Mass. - In the age of "big data" in the health-care industry, massive amounts of digital information are produced, stored, shared, analyzed, processed and…

As Benjamin Franklin once joked, death and taxes are universal. Scale-free networks may not be, at least according to a new study from CU Boulder. The research challenges a popular, two-decade-old theory that networks of all kinds, from…

SIGCSE Symposium highlights research that has shaped the field As a capstone to its 50th annual SIGCSE Technical Symposium, leaders of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education…

Five-year grant will support work in safeguarding complex machine learning models that piggyback on less-than-trustworthy technologyCredit: Douglas Benedict for Lehigh University We live in the era of software 2.0. An era of computer…