Virus 'tracing' by smartphone: a key to reopening society?
Can an app contain the pandemic? Interest is growing in smartphone technology as a potential key to ending lockdowns and reopening economies around the world.
Apr 15, 2020
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Can an app contain the pandemic? Interest is growing in smartphone technology as a potential key to ending lockdowns and reopening economies around the world.
Apr 15, 2020
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From defence and health information to social networking and banking transactions, communications increasingly rely on cryptographic security amid growing fears of cyberattacks. However, can such sensitive data be unhackable? ...
Mar 27, 2020
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Recent research indicates it's possible to infiltrate—and steal—vehicles manufactured by Toyota, Hyundai, and Kia due to flaws in the way their chip-enabled mechanical keys were encrypted.
Mar 7, 2020
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An international team of computer scientists had set a new record for two of the most important computational problems that are the basis for nearly all of the public-key cryptography that is currently used in the real world.
Dec 5, 2019
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Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) security researchers Berk Sunar and Daniel Moghimi led an international team of researchers that discovered serious security vulnerabilities in computer chips made by Intel Corp. and ...
Nov 12, 2019
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WhatsApp, text or email—which is the most secure option when your conversation really has to be locked down?
Oct 14, 2019
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The discovery of a flaw in Bluetooth specification that could enable an attack to spy on your information made news this week; the attacker could be able to weaken the encryption of Bluetooth devices and snoop on communications ...
Computer Sciences
Developed with Ericsson Research, the slice-aware memory-management scheme allows frequently used data to be accessed more quickly via the last-level cache of memory (LLC) of an Intel Xeon CPU. By establishing a key-value ...
Jul 8, 2019
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A bandit story of the cryptocurrency kind was a popular item on tech sites this week, with staggering amounts of money scooped up by some blockchain bandit, and spotted by security consultants, Independent Security Evaluators.
Consumer & Gadgets
Google has announced that it has made software updates to Chrome and Android that make it possible to use an Android phone (7+) as a physical security key. In their announcement, Google once again claimed that using physical ...