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.…
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…
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…
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…
Children are increasingly being exposed to, and using, technology from a very young age. This has never been more true than in 2020 when the vast majority of children worldwide have used…
Voting is the staple of democracy and has been done in person in the United States since its founding. While the controversy over the integrity of mail-in votes continues, never in our…
Researchers from Florida Atlantic University’s College of Engineering and Computer Science have received a four-year, $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation for a project to make the master’s degree in artificial intelligence (AI)…
New research from North Carolina State University finds that the number of robocalls isn’t going up, and that answering a robocall doesn’t make you more likely to get additional robocalls. However, stories…
The National Science Foundation has awarded a pair of professors at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) a nearly $500,000, three-year grant to develop a better way to wipe data from the…
In recent days, U.S. President Donald Trump announced a U.S. ban Tik Tok, an extremely popular application that features short videos where their creators often dance or lip-sync to viral audio clips.…
