https://techxplore.com/rss-feed/security-news/ en-us The latest news on cyber security, network security, software vulnerabilities, data leaks, malware, and viruses Humans have been successfully trained to spot AI-generated faces in a study led by researchers at the Australian National University (ANU) Emotions and Faces Lab. The study, "Training Humans to Detect AI-generated Faces," is published in PNAS. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-06-short-people-ai-deepfake-fraud.html Security Mon, 29 Jun 2026 15:00:12 EDT news701945794 Preventing adversaries from interfering with communications is crucial to national security. Tactical satellite communications (SATCOM) focus on securing reliable communications channels against adversaries in contested environments. In support of this mission, a team from MIT Lincoln Laboratory is building a prototype antenna characterized by low size, weight, power and cost (SWaP-C). https://techxplore.com/news/2026-06-antenna-array-tactical-satellite-communications.html Telecom Mon, 29 Jun 2026 09:40:03 EDT news701944083 AI can be used to prevent cybersecurity threats linked to ransomware, says University of Cincinnati researcher Nelly Elsayed. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-06-ai-ally-rooting-ransomware-threats.html Security Fri, 26 Jun 2026 11:01:19 EDT news701689922 In a first for Australian law enforcement, police in Western Australia have deployed live facial recognition technology in marked vans at locations around Perth. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-06-western-australia-police-scanning-law.html Computer Sciences Thu, 25 Jun 2026 22:20:01 EDT news701609036 AI shopping assistants are popping up all over the internet, changing how we browse, compare and discover products. However, these helpful tools appear to have a serious security flaw. According to a paper published on the arXiv preprint server, a single manipulated web page can trick an AI assistant into promoting a fake product to unsuspecting customers. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-06-fake-web-page-ai-bots.html Consumer & Gadgets Thu, 25 Jun 2026 13:00:02 EDT news701609352 Six months on from Australia's under-16s social media ban taking effect, the early verdict from headlines and children themselves has been blunt: It isn't working. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-06-kids-social-media-success.html Internet Thu, 25 Jun 2026 12:00:08 EDT news701606641 Individuals whose data are used to train medical artificial intelligence (AI) models may be at risk of being identified in cyberattacks, according to a Nature paper. Underrepresented groups may face disproportionately higher risks of having their data compromised, the study indicates. The researchers found these individuals are not accounted for in current risk assessments and call for further mitigation and strict access control. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-06-medical-minorities-vulnerable-cyberattack.html Security Thu, 25 Jun 2026 11:20:02 EDT news701603231 There is little evidence that Australia's Social Media Minimum Age Act has led to any immediate reductions in social media use by under-16s, according to an early analysis of survey data published by The BMJ. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-06-evidence-australia-social-media-restrictions.html Internet Wed, 24 Jun 2026 18:30:06 EDT news701514481 The idea that digital advertising depends on tracking users across websites has become a defining feature of the online economy. New research from the University of Kansas has found that artificial intelligence technology can be used to deliver relevant ads without spying on users. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-06-ai-advertising-relevant-content-spying.html Security Tue, 23 Jun 2026 13:20:03 EDT news701438342 A top Indian maker of iPhone parts has confirmed it was hit by a "cybersecurity incident," with media reports alleging that Apple supplier specifications had been leaked. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-06-indian-tech-supplier-cybersecurity-incident.html Security Tue, 23 Jun 2026 04:50:01 EDT news701406757 It may look like a picture of a panda bear to you, but to your business's AI agent, it can act like a skeleton key, bypassing safety safeguards and potentially causing the model to generate harmful, misleading or policy-violating outputs. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-06-microscopic-image-bypass-ai-guardrails.html Security Mon, 22 Jun 2026 16:20:05 EDT news701363462 The obvious problem with biometrics is that once someone has stolen your fingerprint or iris ID, you cannot simply reset those to block their access as you might a password. Now, research published in the International Journal of Computational Vision and Robotics offers a new approach to protecting biometric authentication data so that the risk associated with this kind of irreversible identity theft can be largely avoided and gives users an option to reset their fingerprints and other biometrics, as it were. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-06-revocable-fingerprint-ids-permanent-biometric.html Computer Sciences Mon, 22 Jun 2026 13:40:07 EDT news701353133 Cyberattacks now cost the global economy trillions, yet most people still struggle to understand what actually happens when a breach occurs. Research by Associate Professor Sky Marsen, an applied linguist and communications course director at Flinders University, and Professor Robert Biddle, a computer scientist at Carleton University in Canada, suggests a surprising reason for this gap: The language used to explain cybersecurity may be part of the problem. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-06-phishing-cybersecurity-language.html Security Mon, 22 Jun 2026 09:00:01 EDT news701337421 Researchers have developed an artificial intelligence model that predicts crime more accurately than several existing approaches by combining information about where crimes occur, when they happen and wider social patterns. They report details of the approach in the International Journal of Innovative Computing and Applications. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-06-ai-robberies-cities-accuracy.html Security Thu, 18 Jun 2026 14:20:03 EDT news701010282 The information exchanged by modern devices is typically protected by cryptographic techniques, approaches that convert readable data into scrambled, unreadable code that can only be deciphered by authorized parties or devices. To descramble encrypted data, devices or accounts need access to randomly generated cryptographic keys, unique, randomly generated sequences of binary code, letters or numbers that are essential for encrypting or decrypting data. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-06-orbit-torque-hardware-random-keys.html Hardware Thu, 18 Jun 2026 11:40:01 EDT news700999720 Long before a hacker ever touches a keyboard, their personal moral outlook helps predict whether they will use their skills in ethical or unethical ways, according to new research led by the University at Buffalo School of Management. Published in Technology in Society, the study found that students drawn to legitimate, authorized cybersecurity work also tend to be attracted to its illegal side, a pattern the authors warn could quietly erode ethical boundaries in the profession. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-06-hack-ethical.html Security Mon, 15 Jun 2026 21:20:05 EDT news700736750 The rise of generative artificial intelligence (AI) poses challenges for the free and open-source software (FOSS) community, a global network committed to creating and maintaining publicly available software that anyone can use, modify and share. Many AI models have been built on open-source software but do not reciprocate the transparency that the FOSS community's principles require, leaving open-source developers uncertain about how these AI tools are using their code. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-06-copyleft-generative-ai.html Security Mon, 15 Jun 2026 16:20:06 EDT news700757962 Some technology and policy watchers were surprised when President Donald Trump signed an executive order on June 2, 2026, establishing a framework for AI security. It seemed to move in a different direction from a December 2025 executive order that sought to create a "minimally burdensome" national framework for artificial intelligence and supersede state laws the administration saw as restrictive. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-06-administration-ai-acknowledges-short-industry.html Security Mon, 15 Jun 2026 11:40:03 EDT news700740421 Most Americans, even those who most appreciate AI, strongly support more regulation of it, a new survey by Johns Hopkins University researchers finds. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-06-americans-strongly-ai-poll.html Security Mon, 15 Jun 2026 09:20:01 EDT news700733582 Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have created a new paradigm for identifying online phishing campaigns. Their new system, PhishLumos, is triggered when links show signs of concealing information and looks for clues in the "infrastructure" of the website to uncover the whole campaign of which the site is only a tiny part. Real-world testing showed detection that was eight days faster than an expert's, with 190,000 URLs detected over six months. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-06-phishlumos-phishing-infrastructure-urls-months.html Security Sat, 13 Jun 2026 05:29:42 EDT news700547363 A new kernel (core program) within an operating system gives researchers a cleaner view of what's happening inside a processor. Called Fractal and developed at MIT, the kernel has already surfaced previously unknown behavior in Apple's M1. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-06-os-kernel-uncovers-hidden-apple.html Hardware Wed, 10 Jun 2026 17:00:02 EDT news700329422 Since 2019, GPS signals across Europe, Greenland and Canada have experienced a huge spike in sudden, widespread signal blackouts. These have resulted in disruptions and degraded performance in navigation systems that airplanes and ships rely on to travel safely. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-06-russian-satellites-linked-mysterious-gps.html Telecom Wed, 10 Jun 2026 13:30:01 EDT news700314890 Can we make artificial intelligence impervious to adversaries who want to twist the technology to nefarious ends? Though AI is among the newest of technologies, the answer to that question is nearly a century old. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-06-mathematical-proof-reveals-ai-guardrails.html Security Wed, 10 Jun 2026 12:00:08 EDT news700310461 Every day, billions of people trust computer chips to protect their most sensitive information, ranging from banking passwords to national security secrets. But what if those chips were secretly compromised before they even left the factory? https://techxplore.com/news/2026-06-hidden-chip-threats.html Hardware Tue, 09 Jun 2026 14:40:03 EDT news700233961 Randomness forms a crucial backbone of modern society, where every encryption key, secure transaction and digital signature depends on random numbers that no adversary can predict. But every random number generator ever deployed, classical or quantum, has asked its users to take the hardware's honesty on faith. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-06-quantum-chip-generates-certified-random.html Hardware Tue, 09 Jun 2026 13:40:06 EDT news700231004 Under the pretext of employment prospects, hundreds of thousands of job seekers are lured by scammers to cross the border into countries such as Myanmar, Laos or Cambodia. Instead of the promised lucrative positions, they are forced to work long hours in heavily guarded scam compounds, facing strict quotas and violence as punishment. Their main task is to fabricate online identities and defraud people, for example by operating "pig-butchering" scams, in which they introduce fraudulent investment schemes after establishing romantic relationships with random targets online. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-06-social-media-accounts-uncover-fake.html Security Mon, 08 Jun 2026 15:00:05 EDT news700148488 Research in the International Journal of Information and Communication Technology has looked at potential security and privacy weaknesses in remote higher education systems, focusing on centralized virtual learning platforms. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-06-blockchain-framework-curb-credential-fraud.html Security Mon, 08 Jun 2026 14:40:03 EDT news700146135 A major security vulnerability that allows attackers to easily fake their identity in smartphone text conversations has been fixed in the United States thanks to a team of computer scientists at the University of California San Diego. The vulnerability affected both Android and Apple smartphones as well as all major wireless carriers, including Verizon, T-Mobile and Google Fi, and smaller independent operators such as Mint Mobile. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-06-verizon-apple-hidden-texting-flaw.html Security Mon, 08 Jun 2026 10:40:10 EDT news700133384 The increasing adoption of electric vehicles is creating growing demand for charging infrastructure, driving a transformation in access to and use of energy through the controlled deployment of fast, efficient and secure charging stations. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-06-track-potential-electric-vehicle-stations.html Security Mon, 08 Jun 2026 10:20:02 EDT news700132069 As the demand for nuclear security solutions grows, distinguishing a benign medical isotope from a potential threat is critical. Organic glass scintillators can help meet the need for accurate, cost-effective radiation detectors. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-06-qa-glass-scintillators-nuclear.html Engineering Fri, 05 Jun 2026 11:40:04 EDT news699877801