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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 ...
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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 ...
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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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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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Security
Five cybersecurity tips to protect yourself from scams and deepfakes
In an age when misinformation and deepfakes blur the lines between fact and fiction, identifying scams has never been more challenging. Falling for a scam can have devastating social, financial, and personal consequences. ...
Dec 20, 2024
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Security
Can we convince AI to answer harmful requests?
New research from EPFL demonstrates that even the most recent large language models (LLMs), despite undergoing safety training, remain vulnerable to simple input manipulations that can cause them to behave in unintended or ...
Dec 19, 2024
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Security
Study: New method of privacy enhancement for AI-powered medical data
Artificial intelligence has the potential to improve doctors' ability to diagnose and treat sleep apnea. But the technology is not widely adopted due to fears that it does not safeguard patient data.
Dec 19, 2024
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Consumer & Gadgets
The federal government wants you to adopt 'end-to-end encryption' methods. Here's why you should adopt them
After revealing that it was the target of a sweeping hacking campaign, the federal government issued a public service announcement this week urging the public to use "end-to-end encryption" in order to better secure its digital ...
Dec 19, 2024
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Robotics
Expert warns of increasing drone swarms and the need for faster detection
Federal authorities have provided new details in the case of "the mysterious drones" spotted around the northeastern U.S.
Dec 19, 2024
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Security
UK study: Older adults less likely to experience cybercrime than younger adults—but it's more financially devastating
Adults aged 75 and older are more likely to repeatedly experience cybercrime and related financial loss, according to research published December 18, 2024, in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Benjamin Havers from University ...
Dec 18, 2024
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Security
How can you stay safe from cyber attacks? Here are two simple checklists from experts
"Cyber security" may sound like a far-off worry for big corporations or telcos, but that's far from the case. Cyber security simply means the practice of safeguarding your sensitive data from unauthorized access, theft and ...
Dec 17, 2024
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Robotics
What's behind the surge in mysterious drone sightings over New Jersey, Massachusetts and other states?
A month after mysterious drones were first reported over New Jersey, authorities are still trying to determine where they are coming from as sightings increase in frequency and spread into neighboring states.
Dec 16, 2024
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Security
Beyond checking a box: How a social license can help communities benefit from data reuse and AI
The original excitement about the influence of artificial intelligence (AI) on developed countries is shifting toward how AI might influence developing nations. The Economist recently ran a cover story extolling the potential ...
Dec 16, 2024
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Hi Tech & Innovation
Study reveals vulnerability of metaverse platforms to cyber attacks
Having access to virtual worlds from your home computer via your web browser and being able to interact with others in a secure and private manner: that is the promise of metaverse platforms.
Dec 13, 2024
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Security
Stealing AI models: New technique enables theft without hacking into a device
Researchers have demonstrated the ability to steal an artificial intelligence (AI) model without hacking into the device where the model was running. The technique is novel in that it works even when the thief has no prior ...
Dec 12, 2024
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Business
Cybersecurity 'insider threats' fall into seven categories, says researcher
Are you a fallible frog or a misbehaving magpie? Perhaps you feel more like a disempowered marionette? When it comes to the 'insider threat' posed to an organization's cybersecurity, every employee falls into one of seven ...
Dec 12, 2024
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Internet
One Tech Tip: How to protect your communications through encryption
After a sprawling hacking campaign exposed the communications of an unknown number of Americans, U.S. cybersecurity officials are advising people to use encryption in their communications.
Dec 12, 2024
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