TechXplore-Security

The COVID-19 pandemic changed the way many people approached their work across the globe. For Carnegie Mellon University Africa’s Jema Ndibwile, it changed the way he viewed a completely different type of virus: a computer […]

College administrators read an adjunct professor’s comments to students on personal essays. Managers told a pharmacist to spend less time with patients after tracking the number and length of her appointments. Scanners on a warehouse […]

Australia’s national response to scams has strengthened in recent years through government-led anti-scam measures. Yet losses remain above $2 billion, and scams continue to have a significant and devastating impact on individuals, particularly those in […]

Counterfeit and out-of-spec components are entering U.S. defense supply chains through thousands of small and midsized suppliers that make up the lower tiers of the industrial base. Researchers at the Georgia Tech Manufacturing Institute (GTMI) […]

Recent cyberattacks on municipal water systems across the United States have renewed concerns about the cybersecurity of the operational technology that supports critical infrastructure.This post was originally published on this site

A new security loophole discovered by researchers from the University of Massachusetts Amherst can bring some expired credit cards back to life. If stolen, these “zombie credit cards” could leave cardholders vulnerable to fraudulent charges, […]

Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy, EPFL and the CASA Cluster of Excellence have developed a new approach that provides end-to-end encryption for collaborative online documents throughout the entire process, combining […]

As the world is increasingly flooded with deepfakes, the European Union is taking action to help people distinguish what is real and what is not.This post was originally published on this site

Passkeys are touted as safer than traditional passwords. But for people targeted by intimate partner abuse, they can often be more dangerous. Someone with access to their partner’s computer and password could set up their […]

Physical access to an aircraft has not typically been considered a cybersecurity risk—but it should be, according to a team of computer scientists at the University of California San Diego. In a paper presented Aug. […]