Thousands of Canadian government accounts hacked
Tens of thousands of user accounts for online government services in Canada were recently hacked during cyber attacks, authorities said Saturday.
Aug 16, 2020
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Telecom
Security gap allows eavesdropping on mobile phone calls
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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Software
Protection against terrorist attacks with homemade explosives
Terrorist attacks often feature the use of homemade explosives. For the police and security forces to be able to take appropriate precautions and assess the damage after an attack, they need access to the right kind of tools. ...
Aug 3, 2020
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Computer Sciences
Fooling deep neural networks for object detection with adversarial 3-D logos
Over the past decade, researchers have developed a growing number of deep neural networks that can be trained to complete a variety of tasks, including recognizing people or objects in images. While many of these computational ...
Ransomware criminals are targeting US universities
As COVID-19 cases in the U.S. continue to climb, government and higher education leaders have been focused on doing what it takes to protect campus communities from the global pandemic.
Jul 16, 2020
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Computer Sciences
FoolChecker: A platform to check how robust an image is against adversarial attacks
Deep neural networks (DNNs) have so far proved to be highly promising for a wide range of applications, including image and audio classification. Nonetheless, their performance heavily relies on the amount of data used to ...
Security
New wave of ransomware from Russian-led hackers: researchers
Russia-based hackers are stepping up ransomware attacks against major US firms seeking to cripple computer networks if their demands for millions of dollars are not met, security researchers are warning.
Jun 26, 2020
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A method to protect audio classifiers against adversarial attacks
In recent years, machine learning algorithms have attained remarkable results in a variety of tasks, including the classification of both images and audio files. A class of algorithms that has proven to be particularly promising ...
Security
Cyber attack shuts Australia's biggest brewer just as pubs reopen
A ransomware attack has shut down the biggest brewer in Australia and New Zealand, cutting supplies to pubs and restaurants just as the countries emerge from coronavirus lockdown, the company said Friday.
Jun 12, 2020
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Internet
Web inventor: Closing digital divide must be top priority
World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee said Thursday the COVID-19 pandemic demonstrates "the gross inequality" of a world where almost half the population is unable to connect to the internet.
Jun 12, 2020
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