Popular Robotic Vacuum Cleaners Can Be Remotely Hacked to Act As Microphones
Researchers hacked a robotic vacuum cleaner to record speech and music remotely. A team of researchers demonstrated that popular robotic household vacuum cleaners can be…
Cybersecurity
Popular Messenger Services – Such As WhatsApp, Signal, and Telegram – Are Extremely Insecure
WhatsApp, Signal & Co: Billions of users vulnerable to privacy attacks. Researchers from the Technical University of Darmstadt and the University of Würzburg show that…
A New Software Tool – Fawkes – Cloaks Your Images to Trick Facial Recognition Algorithms
A new tool to protect yourself against facial recognition software designed by University of Chicago researchers. The rapid rise of facial recognition systems has placed…
New Quantum Approach for Sharing Secrets Sets a Record With 11 Dimensions
Wits Researchers have demonstrated a new quantum approach for sharing a secret amongst many parties, setting a new record for the highest dimensions and parties…
Princeton Has Developed a Technique for Tracking Online Foreign Misinformation Campaigns in Real Time
A research team led by Princeton University has developed a technique for tracking online foreign misinformation campaigns in real-time, which could help mitigate outside interference…
Which Face is Real? Using Frequency Analysis to Identify “Deep-Fake” Images
This method exposes fake images created by computer algorithms rather than by humans. They look deceptively real, but they are made by computers: so-called deep-fake…
New Research Reveals Startling Privacy Risks of Home Security Cameras
An international study has used data from a major home Internet Protocol (IP) security camera provider to evaluate potential privacy risks for users. IP home…
Patterned Optical Chips That Emit Chaotic Light Waves Keep Secrets Perfectly Safe
Chaos could help put cyberhackers out of business with a patterned silicon chip that will be uncrackable even in the future. Confidential data—including credit card…
Smartphones Are Digital Truth Serum – Here’s Why
Researchers from University of Pennsylvania published a new paper in the Journal of Marketing that explains that the device people use to communicate can affect the extent…
Today’s Most-Secure Communications Threatened by Future Quantum Computers
Quantum computers that are exponentially faster than any of our current classical computers and are capable of code-breaking applications could be available in 12 to…
New Protection for US Energy Grid and Nuclear Weapons Systems
To deter attempts to disable U.S. electrical utilities and to defend U.S. nuclear weapon systems from evolving technological threats, Sandia National Laboratories has begun two…
‘Surfing Attack’ – New Way to Hack Siri, Google Assistant With Ultrasonic Waves
Researchers use ultrasound waves vibrating through tables to access cellphones. Ultrasonic waves don’t make a sound, but they can still activate Siri on your cellphone…
Organized Cybercrime – Hacker Networks Are Not Your Average Mafia
Does the common stereotype for “organized crime” hold up for organizations of hackers? Research from Michigan State University is one of the first to identify…
Autonomous Vehicles Fooled by Phantom Images Projected From Drone [Video]
Researchers from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev’s (BGU) Cyber Security Research Center have found that they can cause the autopilot on an autonomous vehicle to…
MIT Invents Cryptographic “Tag of Everything” – Could Protect Against Counterfeiting
Tiny, battery-free ID chip can authenticate nearly any product to help protect the supply chain. To combat supply chain counterfeiting, which can cost companies billions…
MIT Finds Hackers Can Change Votes in Voting App Used in U.S. Federal Elections
Mobile voting application could allow hackers to alter individual votes and may pose privacy issues for users. In recent years, there has been a growing…
First All-Optical “Stealth” Encryption Technology Developed
Optical end-to-end solution includes encryption, transmission, decryption, and detection. BGN Technologies, the technology-transfer company of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU), Israel, is introducing the…
World’s Most Popular Websites’ Inconsistent and Misleading Password Advice Could Increase Risk of Cyber Attacks
Password meters are frequently made available to help users secure their personal data against the threats posed by cyber criminals. However, the ‘inconsistent and misleading’…