Even the world’s freest countries aren’t safe from internet censorship
The largest collection of public internet censorship data ever compiled shows that even citizens of what are considered the world’s freest countries aren’t safe …
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Researchers break Intel SGX by creating $30 device to control CPU voltage
Researchers at the University of Birmingham have managed to break Intel SGX, a set of security functions used by Intel processors, by creating a $30 device to control CPU …
ML tool identifies domains created to promote fake news
Academics at UCL and other institutions have collaborated to develop a machine learning tool that identifies new domains created to promote false information so that they can …
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 …