Half a million stolen passwords, emails for sale on dark web
Hackers stole personal data from more than a half million users of an Italy-based email service and posted the purloined information for sale online.
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Computer Sciences
Researchers show they can steal data during homomorphic encryption
Homomorphic encryption is considered a next generation data security technology, but researchers have identified a vulnerability that allows them to steal data even as it is being encrypted.
Mar 2, 2022
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Software
Understanding the rising threat of ransomware attacks
A rude awakening came to thousands of Americans in early May. Many motorists who had never seen the effects of a devastating ransomware attack found themselves scrambling to find a flowing gas pump, and waiting in massive ...
Aug 19, 2021
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Software
Neural model seeks 'inappropriateness' to reduce chatbot awkwardness
Researchers from Skoltech and their colleagues from Mobile TeleSystems have introduced the notion of inappropriate text messages and released a neural model capable of detecting them, along with a large collection of such ...
Jul 20, 2021
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New open-source platform cuts costs for running AI
Cornell researchers have released a new, open-source platform called Cascade that can run artificial intelligence (AI) models in a way that slashes expenses and energy costs while dramatically improving performance.
Dec 7, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
Halogens can increase solar cell performance by 25 per cent
New research from the University of British Columbia and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill shows that using halogens—a class of elements that include fluoride, bromine, chlorine and iodine—in a dye-sensitized ...
Dec 20, 2017
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Computer Sciences
How randomly moving electrons can improve cyber security
In October 2017, tech giant Yahoo! disclosed a data breach that had leaked sensitive information of over 3 billion user accounts, exposing them to identity theft. The company had to force all affected users to change passwords ...
May 27, 2022
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Security
Cybersecurity study of the dark web exposes vulnerability to machine identities
A thriving marketplace for SSL and TLS certificates—small data files used to facilitate confidential communication between organizations' servers and their clients' computers—exists on a hidden part of the Internet, according ...
Mar 8, 2019
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Hardware
LVI: Intel processors still vulnerable to attack, study finds
Computer scientists at KU Leuven have once again exposed a security flaw in Intel processors. Jo Van Bulck, Frank Piessens, and their colleagues in Austria, the United States, and Australia gave the manufacturer one year's ...
Mar 10, 2020
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Hardware
Computer scientists discover gap in the latest security mechanisms used by some chips
Over the past few years, hardware manufacturers have developed technologies that ought to make it possible for companies and governmental organizations to process sensitive data securely using shared cloud computing resources. ...
Apr 4, 2024
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