Beneath many cities are complex networks of optical fibers that carry data, encoded in pulses of light, to offices and homes. Researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) and Singtel, Asia’s…
New adversarial techniques developed by engineers at Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) can make objects “invisible” to image detection systems that use deep-learning algorithms. These techniques can also trick systems into thinking they…
Yanfang (Fanny) Ye, assistant professor of computer science and electrical engineering at West Virginia University, has been awarded a prestigious CAREER award from the National Science Foundation in support of her work to enhance the…
Cybercriminals can run, but they cannot hide from their digital fingerprints. Still, cybercrimes reached a six-year high in 2017, when more than 300,000 people in the United States fell victim to such…
In early 2018, cybersecurity researchers discovered two security flaws they said were present in almost every high-end processor made and used by major companies. Known, ominously, as Spectre and Meltdown, these flaws…
The motto “united we stand, divided we fall” has found new application in an unlikely discipline – in cyber security. Machines – from simple ones like a personal computer to a complex…
While an empty email inbox is something many people strive for, most of us are not successful. And that means that we probably have stored away hundreds, even thousands, of emails that…
Quantum computers are designed to process information using quantum bits, and promise huge speedups in scientific computing and codebreaking Current prototype devices are publicly accessible but highly error prone: information can ‘leak’…
A new area in artificial intelligence involves using algorithms to automatically design machine-learning systems known as neural networks, which are more accurate and efficient than those developed by human engineers. But this…
Computers, like those that power self-driving cars, can be tricked into mistaking random scribbles for trains, fences and even school busses. People aren’t supposed to be able to see how those images…