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Use a smartwatch to verify handwritten signatures and detect forgeries? Sure!
A new system that uses smartwatch devices and software to verify handwritten signatures and detect even the most skilled forgeries has been developed by Ben-Gurion University …
The most common passwords of 2016
Despite having been predicted many times, the demise of the password as the preferred authentication method is still far off, as it’s difficult to beat its ease of use. …
Did Tesco Bank attackers guess victims’ payment card details?
A group of researchers from Newcastle University have discovered a practical and easy way for attackers to quickly guess individuals’ Visa payment card info needed to …
Researchers reveal WiFi-based mobile password discovery attack
A group of researchers has come up with WindTalker, a new attack method for discovering users’ passwords and PINs as they enter them into their smartphones. WindTalker …
Researchers set to work on malware-detecting CPUs
Adding hardware protections to software ones to block the ever-increasing onslaught of computer malware seems like a solid idea, and a group of researchers have just been …
Signal Protocol’s crypto core has no major flaws, researchers find
A group of computer science and cryptography professors and doctoral students has effected a security analysis of the secure messaging Signal Protocol – specifically, of …
Icarus takes control of drones by impersonating their operators
Researcher Jonathan Andersson, a member of Trend Micro’s TippingPoint DVLabs, has demonstrated how a specialized hardware module dubbed Icarus can be used to hijack a …
Hacking 3D manufacturing systems demonstrated by researchers
Researchers from three universities combined their expertise to demonstrate the first complete sabotage attack on a 3D additive manufacturing (AM) system, illustrating how a …
Researchers bypass ASLR by exploiting flaw in Intel chip
Researchers have found a design flaw in the branch predictor, a component of Intel’s Haswell processor, and have exploited it to bypass ASLR (Address Space Layout …
OverSight detects when Mac malware uses built-in camera, mic
Users who want to be warned each time their Mac’s camera and microphone are switched on – either by a legitimate process or, more importantly, by malware – …
Security fatigue is real – we need usable security
A preliminary study involving 40 computer users of different ages, occupations, and living in different settings has shown what most of use already know to be true: security …
DefecTor: DNS-enhanced correlation attacks against Tor users
A group of researchers from Princeton University, Karlstad University and KTH Royal Institute of Technology have devised two new correlation attacks that can be leveraged to …
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