Smart home hubs leave users vulnerable to hackers
Machine learning programs mean even encrypted information can give cybercriminals insight into your daily habits.
Nov 16, 2022
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Google announces Half-Double, a new technique used in the Rowhammer DRAM security exploit
Google has just revealed the discovery of a new technique used by attackers to take advantage of the Rowhammer security exploit present in Dynamic Random-Access Memory (DRAM). This new strategy involves capitalizing on the ...
Internet
This tool protects your private data while you browse
A team of computer scientists at the University of California San Diego and Brave Software have developed a tool that will increase protections for users' private data while they browse the web.
Nov 18, 2021
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Research shows how hackers can target smart meters to destabilize electricity grid
A power transmission grid can be destabilized by hackers who manipulate smart meters to create an oscillation in electricity demand, researchers in the Oregon State University College of Engineering have shown.
May 3, 2023
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A camera-based anti-facial recognition technique
Facial recognition systems, computational tools that can recognize individuals in images or video footage, are now widely employed worldwide. Some users and developers, however, have raised privacy-related concerns, as by ...
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Researcher finds way to get audio from still images and silent videos
With video calls becoming more common in the age of remote and hybrid workplaces, "mute yourself" and "I think you're muted" have become part of our everyday vocabularies. But it turns out muting yourself might not be as ...
Sep 25, 2023
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Computer Sciences
Study estimates the prevalence of CCTV cameras in large cities worldwide
Over the past few decades, surveillance cameras, also known as closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras, have become widely used by governments, law enforcement officers and private citizens to monitor public spaces, prevent ...
Security
Scamming the scammers: Using AI-created fake victims to disrupt criminal business model
Macquarie University cyber security experts have invented a multi-lingual chatbot designed to keep scammers on long fake calls and ultimately reduce the huge number of people who lose money to global criminals every day.
Jun 26, 2023
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Windows 10/11 vulnerability exposes admin passwords to local users
A Twitter user has found and made public a Windows 10/11 vulnerability that exposes admin passwords to local users who can then escalate their privileges up to admin, giving them total system access. As he notes on his posts, ...
Security
New security system to revolutionize communications privacy
A new, uncrackable security system created by researchers at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), the University of St Andrews and the Center for Unconventional Processes of Sciences (CUP Sciences) ...
Dec 20, 2019
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