A new study outlines ways colleges and universities can update their curricula to prepare the workforce for a new wave of quantum technology jobs. Three researchers, including Rochester Institute of Technology Associate…
UA Little Rock Joins Coalition to Launch Health Care Cybersecurity Curriculum and Pilot Focused on Veterans and First Responders
The University of Arkansas at Little Rock is part of a coalition of universities and industry partners that are developing a curriculum to increase cybersecurity talent focused on health care with $6.3…
Double Patterns Could Advance Android Device Security
Researchers have found that using multiple patterns to unlock an Android phone provides significantly more security than the current single-pattern method, and, in some cases, may be more secure than the 4-…
New Tool Detects Unsafe Security Practices in Android Apps
Computer scientists at Columbia Engineering have shown for the first time that it is possible to analyze how thousands of Android apps use cryptography without needing to have the apps’ actual…
New Tool Detects Unsafe Security Practices in Android Apps
The Internet of Things (IoT) allowing smart phones, home appliances, drones and self-driving vehicles to exchange digital information in real time requires a powerful security solution, as it can have a direct…
Sandia Helps Safeguard Biological Data Threatened During COVID-19 pandemic
A partnership between Sandia National Laboratories and the Boston firm BioBright to improve the security of synthetic biology equipment has become more relevant after the United States and others issued warnings that…
Protecting Device Software from Zero-Day Attacks with TrustMS
An essential step to protecting mobile and embedded devices from cyberattacks is ensuring that software is not vulnerable to malicious attacks. More than 12,000 new common vulnerabilities were identified in 2019 alone.…
Software Spots and Fixes Hang Bugs in Seconds, Rather Than Weeks
Hang bugs – when software gets stuck, but doesn’t crash – can frustrate both users and programmers, taking weeks for companies to identify and fix. Now researchers from North Carolina State University…
Hackers Targeting Companies That Fake Corporate Responsibility
A new study suggests some hackers aren’t just in it for the money but instead are motivated by their disappointment in a company’s attempts to fake social responsibility. “There is emerging evidence…
A Computer Can Guess More Than 100,000,000,000 Passwords Per Second. Still Think Yours Is Secure?
Passwords have been used for thousands of years as a means of identifying ourselves to others and in more recent times, to computers. It’s a simple concept – a shared piece of…
