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Holiday gifts getting smarter, but creepier when it comes to privacy and security
A Hamilton Beach Smart Coffee Maker that could eavesdrop, an Amazon Halo fitness tracker that measures the tone of your voice, and a robot-building kit that puts your kid’s …
New side-channel attacks allow access to sensitive data on Intel CPUs
An international team of security researchers is presenting new side-channel attacks (CVE-2020-8694 and CVE-2020-8695), which use fluctuations in software power consumption to …
Developing a quantum network that exchanges information across long distances by using photons
Researchers at the University of Rochester and Cornell University have taken an important step toward developing a communications network that exchanges information across …
How fake news detectors can be manipulated
Fake news detectors, which have been deployed by social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook to add warnings to misleading posts, have traditionally flagged online …
Researchers open the door to new distribution methods for secret cryptographic keys
Researchers from the University of Ottawa, in collaboration with Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and Bar-Ilan University scientists, have been able to create optical framed …
Why are certain employees more likely to comply with information security policies than others?
Information security policies (ISP) that are not grounded in the realities of an employee’s work responsibilities and priorities expose organizations to higher risk for …
MatRiCT: A quantum-safe and privacy-preserving blockchain protocol
Researchers from CSIRO’s Data61 and the Monash Blockchain Technology Centre have developed the world’s most efficient blockchain protocol that is both secure against quantum …
Phish Scale: New method helps organizations better train their employees to avoid phishing
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a new method called the Phish Scale that could help organizations better train their …
Mobile messengers expose billions of users to privacy attacks
Popular mobile messengers expose personal data via discovery services that allow users to find contacts based on phone numbers from their address book, according to …
Popular Android apps are rife with cryptographic vulnerabilities
Columbia University researchers have released Crylogger, an open source dynamic analysis tool that shows which Android apps feature cryptographic vulnerabilities. They also …
Researchers develop secure multi-user quantum communication network
The world is one step closer to having a totally secure internet and an answer to the growing threat of cyber-attacks, thanks to a team of international scientists who have …
Which cybersecurity failures cost companies the most and which defenses have the highest ROI?
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) scientists have created a cryptographic platform that allows companies to securely share data on cyber attacks they suffered and …
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