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Why Computer Security Advice Is More Confusing Than It Should Be

July 25, 2023 —If you find the computer security guidelines you get at work confusing and not very useful, you're not alone. A new study highlights a key problem with how these guidelines are created, and outlines simple steps that would improve them -- and probably make your computer ...

Solving Rare Disease Mysteries ... and Protecting Privacy

July 10, 2023 —Researchers have demonstrated a new way of linking personal records and protecting privacy. The first application is in identifying cases of rare genetic disorders. There are many other potential applications across ...

Stressed for a Bit? Then Don't Click It, Cybersecurity Experts Advise

July 5, 2023 —Workers feeling a specific form of stress are more likely than others to become the victims of a phishing attack, according to a new ...

Evaluating Cybersecurity Methods

June 28, 2023 —Researchers created a generic framework that enables an engineer or scientist to evaluate the effectiveness of defense schemes that seek to limit a hacker's ability to learn secret information by observing the behavior of a victim computer ...

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How Secure Are Voice Authentication Systems Really?

June 27, 2023 —Computer scientists have discovered a method of attack that can successfully bypass voice authentication security systems with up to a 99% success rate after only six ...

New Cyber Software Can Verify How Much Knowledge AI Really Knows

Apr. 4, 2023 —With a growing interest in generative artificial intelligence (AI) systems worldwide, researchers have created software that is able to verify how much information an AI farmed from an organization's ...

New Breakthrough Enables Perfectly Secure Digital Communications

Mar. 7, 2023 —Researchers have achieved a breakthrough to enable 'perfectly secure' hidden communications for the first time. The method uses new advances in information theory methods to conceal one piece of ...

Chromo-Encryption Method Encodes Secrets With Color

Feb. 13, 2023 —In a new approach to security that unites technology and art, E researchers have combined silver nanostructures with polarized light to yield a range of brilliant colors, which can be used to encode ...

Quantum Physicists Make Major Nanoscopic Advance

Jan. 26, 2023 —In a new breakthrough, researchers have solved a problem that has caused quantum researchers headaches for years. The researchers can now control two quantum light sources rather than one. Trivial as ...

Researchers Propose Methods for Automatic Detection of Doxing

Dec. 12, 2022 —A new automated approach to detect doxing -- a form of cyberbullying in which certain private or personally identifiable information is publicly shared without an individual's consent or knowledge -- ...

Microlaser Chip Adds New Dimensions to Quantum Communication

Nov. 21, 2022 —With only two levels of superposition, the qubits used in today's quantum communication technologies have limited storage space and low tolerance for interference. Engineering's hyperdimensional ...

New AI Model Can Help Prevent Damaging and Costly Data Breaches

Nov. 9, 2022 —Privacy experts have created an AI algorithm that automatically tests privacy-preserving systems for potential data ...

From Bits to P-Bits: One Step Closer to Probabilistic Computing

Aug. 29, 2022 —Scientists have developed a mathematical description of what happens within tiny magnets as they fluctuate between states when an electric current and magnetic field are applied. Their findings could ...

Thinking Like a Cyber-Attacker to Protect User Data

Aug. 15, 2022 —Researchers have shown that a component of modern computer processors that enables different areas of the chip to communicate with each other is susceptible to a side-channel attack. An attacker can ...