A simple tool to make websites more secure and curb hacking
An international team of researchers has developed a scanning tool to make websites less vulnerable to hacking and cyberattacks.
Jun 22, 2022
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Hardware
Radio waves for the detection of hardware tampering
As far as data security is concerned, there is an even greater danger than remote cyberattacks: namely tampering with hardware that can be used to read out information—such as credit card data from a card reader. Researchers ...
Jun 7, 2022
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Computer Sciences
New technique offers faster security for non-volatile memory tech
Researchers have developed a technique that leverages hardware and software to improve file system security for next-generation memory technologies called non-volatile memories (NVMs). The new encryption technique also permits ...
Apr 5, 2022
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Security tool guarantees privacy in surveillance footage
Surveillance cameras have an identity problem, fueled by an inherent tension between utility and privacy. As these powerful little devices have cropped up seemingly everywhere, the use of machine learning tools has automated ...
Mar 28, 2022
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Consumer & Gadgets
Encrypting photos on the cloud to keep them private
The past decade has witnessed scandal after scandal over private images maliciously or accidentally made public. A new study from computer scientists at Columbia Engineering reveals what may be the first way to encrypt personal ...
Jul 14, 2021
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Consumer & Gadgets
Mass deletion of data from WD My Book Live devices may have involved more than one vulnerability
Security experts at Ars Technica and Censys have found a second vulnerability in Western Digital's My Book Live devices, suggesting the recent mass deletion of data from the devices may have involved more than one vulnerability. ...
Engineering
'PrivacyMic': For a smart speaker that doesn't eavesdrop
Microphones are perhaps the most common electronic sensor in the world, with an estimated 320 million listening for our commands in the world's smart speakers. The trouble is that they're capable of hearing everything else, ...
Jun 9, 2021
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Computer Sciences
Two new attacks break PDF certification
A security issue in the certification signatures of PDF documents has been discovered by researchers at Ruhr-Universität Bochum. This special form of signed PDF files can be used, for instance, to conclude contracts. Unlike ...
May 25, 2021
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Software
Team builds first hacker-resistant cloud software system
Whenever you buy something on Amazon, your customer data is automatically updated and stored on thousands of virtual machines in the cloud. For businesses like Amazon, ensuring the safety and security of the data of its millions ...
May 25, 2021
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PLATYPUS reveals new vulnerabilities discovered in Intel processors
An international team of security researchers, including experts from the University of Birmingham, is presenting new side-channel attacks, which use fluctuations in software power consumption to access sensitive data on ...
Nov 11, 2020
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