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Why would someone hack into schools? Cybersecurity experts explain why they are easy targets
A nationwide breach that has exposed the data of students and teachers around the country underscores how vulnerable educational institutions are to cyberattacks because of a lack of resiliency investments, Northeastern University ...
Jan 16, 2025
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Game theory approach finds some public benefit to platforms like Google and Waze collecting user data
Researchers from Tel Aviv University have used mathematical tools from game theory to show that in certain situations, allowing platforms to retain decision-making power over the collection and commercialization of their ...
Jan 15, 2025
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Is TikTok's time nearly up? A privacy and cybersecurity law expert explains
The clock appears to be winding down on TikTok's future in the U.S. Beijing-based ByteDance, the firm behind the popular video-sharing website in the U.S., has until Sunday to sell TikTok to a non-Chinese owner or close.
Jan 15, 2025
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Cyberattack affecting school boards spotlights the need for better EdTech regulation
Issues surrounding students' data and schools' use of educational technology (EdTech) are in the spotlight as school boards in six provinces respond to a "significant cyberattack" on an administration software platform.
Jan 14, 2025
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Security
Securing the future of AI: Innovations in decentralized federated learning
Federated learning represents a significant shift in the landscape of machine learning, enabling many clients or devices to collaboratively train models while substantially enhancing the privacy of the data involved.
Jan 13, 2025
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Security
Online surveys susceptible to automated bot fraud
Imagine you're filling out an online survey about the future of your city. You thoughtfully answer each question, adding your personal insights.
Jan 10, 2025
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Internet
How secure is your Wi-Fi network? Research uncovers major vulnerability in wireless networking technology
We often take for granted just how ubiquitous Wi-Fi has become over the past two decades, explains Northeastern University electrical and computer engineering professor Francesco Restuccia, who is also a member of the Institute ...
Jan 9, 2025
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Computer Sciences
New mathematical model could help protect privacy and ensure safer use of AI
AI tools are increasingly being used to track and monitor us both online and in-person, yet their effectiveness comes with big risks. Computer scientists at the Oxford Internet Institute, Imperial College London, and UCLouvain ...
Jan 9, 2025
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Consumer & Gadgets
The 'Worst in Show' CES products put your data at risk and cause waste, privacy advocates say
So much of the technology showcased at CES includes gadgets made to improve consumers' lives—whether by leveraging AI to make devices that help people become more efficient, by creating companions to cure loneliness or ...
Jan 9, 2025
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Security
Firefighters learn from experts about electric vehicle batteries, safety
There's a reason that electric vehicles (EV) in salvage yards are kept by themselves and spaced far apart. Their lithium-ion batteries can hold a lot of energy, and if one catches fire, it's sometimes hard for firefighters ...
Jan 9, 2025
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Security
Japan links Chinese hacker MirrorFace to dozens of cyberattacks targeting security and tech data
Japan on Wednesday linked more than 200 cyberattacks over the past five years targeting the country's national security and high technology data to a Chinese hacking group, MirrorFace, detailing their tactics and calling ...
Jan 8, 2025
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Security
Weaponized disinformation can pose serious threat to urban transit systems
As every straphanger knows, public transit systems are fantastic—except when they aren't. A single station closure can ruin a commuter's morning, and even minor delays or disruptions can snowball into major problems as ...
Jan 7, 2025
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Consumer & Gadgets
New labels will help people pick devices less at risk of hacking
The federal government is rolling out a consumer labeling system designed to help Americans pick smart devices that are less vulnerable to hacking.
Jan 7, 2025
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Computer Sciences
From logs to security: How process analysis is transforming access control
Researchers at the University of Electro-Communications have developed a framework for improving system security by analyzing business process logs. The research is published in the International Journal of Software Engineering ...
Jan 7, 2025
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Security
Tesla data helped police after Las Vegas truck explosion, but experts have wider privacy concerns
Your car is spying on you. That is one takeaway from the fast, detailed data that Tesla collected on the driver of one of its Cybertrucks that exploded in Las Vegas earlier this week. Privacy data experts say the deep dive ...
Jan 5, 2025
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Computer Sciences
Digital fingerprint: Cascading style sheets leaves users vulnerable to tracking
Processor type, IP address, browser in use, installed fonts—by collecting these and other characteristics of browser settings and the underlying operating system, it is possible to create a highly detailed and, in some ...
Jan 3, 2025
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Business
Selling fear: Marketing for cybersecurity products often leaves consumers less secure
You have likely seen multiple ads for products and services designed to make you more secure online. When you turn on your television, see online ads, or even when you get in-app notifications, you are likely to encounter ...
Jan 2, 2025
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Security
Japan Airlines was hit by a cyberattack, delaying flights during the year-end holiday season
Japan Airlines said it was hit by a cyberattack Thursday, causing delays to more than 20 domestic flights but the carrier said it was able to stop the onslaught and restore its systems hours later. There was no impact on ...
Dec 26, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
Cryptographic protocol enables secure data sharing in floating wind energy sector
Floating wind power offers enormous potential for deepwater offshore energy development. However, the management and secure exchange of data between stakeholders represents a key challenge for its evolution.
Dec 23, 2024
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Security
3D-printed guns, like the one Luigi Mangione allegedly used, are a growing threat
Police investigating the shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson on Dec. 4, 2024, have announced that the suspected assailant had used a 3D-printed gun. Several high-profile crimes in recent years have involved this ...
Dec 22, 2024
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Security
AI-driven gait analysis bridges health care and security fields
The analysis of a person's individual walking pattern, or gait, can reveal details about their identity and reflect differences between individuals, groups and even populations.
Dec 20, 2024
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Computer Sciences
Fake credentials offer novel solution to e-voting challenges
As we come to the end of a year in which half the world's population went to the polls, EPFL researchers developed and field-tested a groundbreaking new technology to protect remote electronic voting or e-voting from voter ...
Dec 20, 2024
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Security
AI system reveals hidden drug dark jargon unknown even to police officers
Drug trafficking and other criminal activities on social media have become a growing social concern. To evade detection by law enforcement and automated monitoring systems, offenders use dark jargons, often combining multiple ...
Dec 20, 2024
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