Security
IT security experts have identified 14 new types of attacks on web browsers that are known as cross-site leaks, or XS-Leaks. Using XS-Leaks, a malicious website can grab personal data from visitors by interacting with other ...
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Security
Just what the airplane passenger who is always skittish does not want to hear: Radio navigation on planes for landing purposes is not secure; signals can be hacked.
Telecom
Calls via the LTE mobile network, also known as 4G, are encrypted and should therefore be tap-proof. However, researchers from the Horst Görtz Institute for IT Security (HGI) at Ruhr-Universität Bochum have shown that this ...
Aug 12, 2020
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Internet
Have you seen the word "NFT" spinning around the internet lately, and found yourself completely confused as to what everyone's talking about?
Mar 26, 2021
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Consumer & Gadgets
We hate to be the purveyor of bad news, but if you're using Bluetooth with your digital devices—and you know you are—you could be vulnerable to security risks.
Aug 22, 2019
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Security
Is the antivirus program running on your computer really making your computers safer to use, say, for online banking? Is the parental control software you bought to keep your 13-year-old off porn sites downgrading the overall ...
May 4, 2016
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Software
A team of software and information systems engineers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, in Israel, has demonstrated an ability to extract useful data from an air-gapped computer. The group has posted a paper to the arXiv ...
Security
Cyberattacks on IoT devices have shown no signs of slowing as more and more vulnerabilities become known.
Aug 17, 2021
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Internet
Sending an email with a forged address is easier than previously thought, due to flaws in the process that allows email forwarding, according to a research team led by computer scientists at the University of California San ...
Sep 5, 2023
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Security
A research team at Illinois Institute of Technology has extracted personal information, specifically protected characteristics like age and gender, from anonymous cell phone data using machine learning and artificial intelligence ...
Oct 12, 2022
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