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New WebAssembly memory layout could stop Heartbleed-style browser attacks with no visible slowdown
Google Earth, Zoom, Twitch.tv or Photoshop—thanks to the WebAssembly standard, many powerful applications now run directly in a browser without installation. However, some of these web apps have serious security vulnerabilities. ...
Jun 5, 2026
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Engineering
Q&A: How organic glass scintillators could improve nuclear security
As the demand for nuclear security solutions grows, distinguishing a benign medical isotope from a potential threat is critical. Organic glass scintillators can help meet the need for accurate, cost-effective radiation detectors.
Jun 5, 2026
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AI worm adapts across networks, turning any online device into potential target
A team of researchers at the University of Toronto has discovered a new class of cyberthreat that gives hackers more power and reach at far less cost. It can be built with free AI models. Every online device is a potential ...
Jun 4, 2026
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Stronger security measures are needed as the energy retail sector faces escalating cyber threats
A doctoral dissertation by Mikko Suorsa, to be defended at the University of Vaasa, Finland, reveals that the energy retail sector is an essential yet vulnerable part of the energy industry's value chain and of critical infrastructure. ...
Jun 4, 2026
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Two animal-inspired algorithms just changed how software-defined networks catch attacks before disruptions spread
Researchers have developed a new artificial intelligence-based system designed to improve cyberattack detection in software-defined networks (SDNs), a networking architecture widely used in data centers and enterprise systems.
Jun 3, 2026
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Security
A retention-aware system turns a computer's storage chip into a cybersecurity shield
Hackers are ruthless. They can take control of your computer, delete files and disappear without a trace. However, FIU cybersecurity researcher Weidong Zhu has discovered a way to transform a computer's storage chip into ...
Jun 1, 2026
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Computer Sciences
Quantum computers could expose our digital secrets, but there are much better reasons to build them
Quantum computers are coming. Or, at least, that's what current predictions say. These machines harness the power of quantum mechanics, the set of rules governing how physics operates at atomic and sub-atomic scales.
Jun 1, 2026
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Electronics & Semiconductors
AI and ultralow-energy lasers enable an ultrafast authentication system
The security of modern communications heavily relies on systems that can rapidly and reliably verify users and the devices they are using. This process, known as authentication, essentially entails confirming that users or ...
Security
Bluesky accounts hijacked in pro-Russia propaganda campaign
A Russian influence campaign hijacked hundreds of Bluesky accounts—many belonging to influential Americans—to spread propaganda, researchers said, in a striking disinformation tactic that weaponized authentic identities rather ...
May 29, 2026
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Engineering
Graph Time-Frequency Mixed Anomaly Detection framework achieves 99.71% accuracy detecting sensor attacks on drones
A new machine learning framework designed to detect malicious interference in unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), commonly known as drones, has shown strong performance in identifying both sudden and slow-developing sensor attacks, ...
May 28, 2026
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Security
Agentic AI tests the limits of data protection law, study finds
The growing use of agentic artificial intelligence will test how organizations comply with existing data protection law, warns a study appearing in the Computer Law & Security Review.
May 28, 2026
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Business
IBM says to boost open-source security with $5 bn project
American tech giant IBM and its IT services subsidiary Red Hat said Thursday that they would deploy billions of dollars and thousands of staff to secure open source software against new cybersecurity threats.
May 28, 2026
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Internet
Breaking the optical barrier: Terahertz tech could help enable quantum internet security
A new method to distribute cryptographic keys using terahertz waves could help enable secure communication in the quantum-powered internet of the future, researchers say. Engineers from the University of Glasgow are pioneering ...
May 27, 2026
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Security
Privacy isn't dead, it's just that tech companies have made it inconvenient
"You have zero privacy … Get over it," Scott McNealy, then CEO of Sun Microsystems, declared in 1999.
May 27, 2026
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Telecom
Optical wireless quantum security: Free-space QKD and Li-Fi in one system
The German consortium QuINSiDa has achieved a major step toward mobile quantum-secure communication. They demonstrated a one-of-a-kind free-space data transfer channel supporting, for the first time, LiFi and major quantum ...
May 26, 2026
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Business
Workers' information shared with third-party companies, new research reveals
Companies are sharing workers' identifiable information and online activity with third-party companies, including Microsoft, Google and Facebook, using employee monitoring software known as "bossware," new Northeastern University ...
May 22, 2026
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Hi Tech & Innovation
New earphone design verifies users by their heartbeat, simplifying authentication
The use of biometric data in personal devices has been popular with consumers for tracking things like heart rate and sleep stages, but it is becoming increasingly common for identification purposes too. Identifying data ...
Computer Sciences
Researchers discover novel IT attacks—the defense mechanism is already operational
Researchers at the University of Stuttgart's Institute of Information Security have developed a new security standard to counter a novel form of cyberattack—one they had previously identified themselves. The attacks specifically ...
May 21, 2026
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Security
Watching the detectors: Researchers probe efficacy—and danger—of AI detection tools
Patrick Traynor, Ph.D., has questions. When the professor and interim chair of the University of Florida Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering saw reports in the media positing that scientific literature ...
May 20, 2026
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Security
Crashes with consequences: Serial code-reuse attack SFOP breaks Intel CET in Linux
A code-reuse attack named "Segmentation Fault Oriented Programming (SFOP)" exploits weaknesses in signal handling and Intel CET in Linux systems. SFOP is capable of bypassing Intel CET in any program by producing segmentation ...
May 20, 2026
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Security
AI can seem more human than real humans in a classic Turing test
A new University of California San Diego study unveils the first empirical evidence that a modern artificial intelligence system can pass the Turing test—a major scientific benchmark that asks whether a machine can imitate ...
May 19, 2026
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Security
Hackers found a way around Intel CET—PLaTypus locks down library jumps
In June 2020, Intel announced the first hardware availability of Control-Flow Enforcement Technology (CET). This hardware-based protection mechanism has been gradually introduced since Intel's 10th and 11th Core generations ...
May 19, 2026
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Internet
Should you accept internet cookies? Researchers say the open web could suffer without them
It's a choice you may face multiple times a day—and, at this point, your reaction is probably reflexive. Are you going to accept those internet cookies, reject them, or spend a little time customizing your settings?
May 18, 2026
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Internet
Crackdown in Southeast Asia pushes scam networks to Sri Lanka
A surge in arrests of suspected foreign scammers in Sri Lanka has authorities concerned that the island is fast becoming a hub for online crime, following sweeping crackdowns in hotspots Cambodia and Myanmar.
May 17, 2026
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Security
Merged security model could close 5G gaps with 98% attack detection
Research into 5G cellular network security suggests that we need to unify encryption and intrusion detection to better protect those networks rather than treating encryption and detection as separate processes. The research ...
May 12, 2026
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