System Security/Hackers

International group composed of leaders across all of computing's disciplines ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, has named 95 members ACM Fellows for wide-ranging and fundamental contributions in areas including artificial…

Giovanni Vigna and former students are developing a better way to address vulnerabilities at the source-code level The need to patch a problem in a program that is embedded in an existing system, perhaps to introduce or enhance security,…

Ultra-bright photon source brings scalable quantum photonics within reachCredit: QuEST Lab, Stevens Institute of Technology Super-fast quantum computers and communication devices could revolutionize countless aspects of our lives --…

Police who investigate online crimes against children, and protect wider society from seeing images of violence against young people, are themselves at risk of moral injury and other psychological harms. Police who investigate online…

Credit: Purdue University photo/John Underwood WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- A hacker can reproduce a circuit on a chip by discovering what key transistors are doing in a circuit - but not if the transistor "type" is undetectable.…

Credit: Purdue University photo/John Underwood WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- Instead of inserting a card or scanning a smartphone to make a payment, what if you could simply touch the machine with your finger? A prototype developed by…

New center led by Stevens will support the transformation of the defense acquisition system to help the DoD respond to the rapid technological advancements critical to today's warfighter In an increasingly complex global security…

BEER-SHEVA, Israel...November 30, 2020 - An end-to-end cyber-biological attack, in which unwitting biologists may be tricked into generating dangerous toxins in their labs, has been discovered by Ben-Gurion University of the Negev…

Researchers at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) have worked to create methods for improving the safety of technologically complex vehicles. Now that the majority of new cars operate using sophisticated computing…

George Mason University is poised to be named a managing member in the Cybersecurity Manufacturing Innovation Institute (CyManII), a $111 million public-private partnership led by the University of Texas at San Antonio. CyManII will have…

With an award from the National Science Foundation, researchers at WPI and Virginia Tech are developing an app with technology to protect a user's personal information and identityCredit: Worcester Polytechnic Institute Worcester,…

A study by Giovanni Geraci and researchers at Mississippi State University, which aims to improve the security of advanced wireless networks against a series of eavesdropping, interference and identity theft The introduction of the fifth…

Researchers hacked a robotic vacuum cleaner to record speech and music remotelyCredit: Sriram Sami A team of researchers demonstrated that popular robotic household vacuum cleaners can be remotely hacked to act as microphones. The…

The non-profit research center focuses on information security and establishing trust in digital systems and productsCredit: Phil Lihotzky Cybersecurity is one of the biggest challenges for our information society and there is urgent need…

Cheat detection system could gracefully kick out cheating playersCredit: The University of Texas at Dallas University of Texas at Dallas computer scientists have devised a new weapon against video game players who cheat. The…

Advance could enable artificial intelligence on household appliances while enhancing data security and energy efficiency Deep learning is everywhere. This branch of artificial intelligence curates your social media and serves your Google…

Credit: © 2018 Lunghammer - TU Graz Power side-channel attacks are attacks that exploit fluctuations in power consumption to extract sensitive data such as cryptographic keys. Because power measurements with a malware were…

Project disrupted EV charging process by simulating man-in-the-middle attack SAN ANTONIO -- Nov. 9, 2020 -- Engineers at Southwest Research Institute were able to interfere with the charging process of an electric vehicle (EV) by…

Open-source CRYLOGGER is the first tool that detects cryptographic misuses by running the Android app instead of analyzing its codeCredit: Luca Piccolboni/Columbia Engineering New York, NY--November 9, 2020--Computer scientists at Columbia…

Researchers have developed a tiny device that paves the way for higher performance quantum computers and quantum communications, making them significantly faster than the current state-of-the-art.Credit: University of Bristol Bristol…