Researchers find trapdoor in SwissVote election system
A team of researchers have examined the source code published as part of the SwissPost e-voting system, provided by Scytl, and discovered a cryptographic trapdoor.
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Consumer & Gadgets
Learning system for visually impaired features coding by using hands
Visually impaired children who would love to learn how to code? Here's looking at you, says Microsoft. Its approach toward teaching with a physical programming language has taken bigger steps since its beginnings four years ...
Computer Sciences
Redirect2Own: A new approach to protect the intellectual property of user-uploaded content
Every day, millions of users upload content on social media media platforms, including text, pictures and videos. While the creators of this content typically retain intellectual property (IP) rights once it is shared online, ...
Software
Code of ethics doesn't influence decisions of software developers
The world's largest computing society, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), updated its code of ethics in July 2018 – but new research from North Carolina State University shows that the code of ethics does not ...
Oct 9, 2018
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Droidbugs: A new benchmark to evaluate automated repair methods for Android apps
Automated program repair (APR) is an emerging field of research that sets out to develop methods of fixing software bugs automatically, without intervention by human programmers. After development, APR techniques are typically ...
Engineering
Saving pedestrian lives by using public cameras to communicate with smartphones
Purdue University researchers are looking at a new way to alert walkers distracted while using their smartphones about oncoming vehicles as a method to lower pedestrian deaths, which have hit a three-decade high in the United ...
Sep 28, 2018
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Tenable Research discloses Peekaboo vulnerability affecting video surveillance
Hackers have proven capable of staging a hijack of surveillance camera footage. Security hounds are calling the zero day vulnerability Peekaboo. In brief, certain internet-connected surveillance cameras, could be vulnerable ...
Computer Sciences
SapFix cutting cool path toward eliminating debugging-code drudgery
Facebook has come up with something called SapFix and their announcement signifies a welcome measure of support for debugging task drudgery; SapFix can rely on artificial intelligence and come up with some answers that save ...
Computer Sciences
Researchers compile a new database of executable Python code snippets on GitHub
A team of researchers at North Carolina State University has recently carried out an empirical analysis of the executable status of Python code snippets shared on GitHub. Their study, pre-published on arXiv, also presents ...
Engineering
Researchers turn tracking codes into unclonable 'clouds' to authenticate genuine 3-D printed parts
The worldwide market for 3-D-printed parts is a $5 billion business with a global supply chain involving the internet, email, and the cloud—creating a number of opportunities for counterfeiting and intellectual property ...
Aug 20, 2018
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