Two Iranian men have been charged with deploying a sinister type of ransomware that crippled the operations of hospitals, municipalities, public institutions, and other critical networks in the United States and Canada,…
The critical infrastructure sectors rely on accurate position, navigation and timing (PNT) to function. Currently, the global positioning system (GPS) is the primary source of distributed and accurate timing information. However, GPS’s…
The Marriott hotel group is investigating a data breach involving its Starwood guest reservation database. On November 19, 2018, the investigation determined that there was unauthorized access to the database, which contained…
Sending information in optical fibers over long distances in the classical regime Sending information over long distances can be done by encoding messages into light pulses, and sending them through optical fibers.…
What President-elect Donald Trump and the Republican sweep of government will mean for K-12 education priorities over the next four years is not entirely clear yet. However, policy statements and administration selections…
Cyber crime is a threat to every organization that operates internet-connected devices. It’s highly profitable, highly disruptive, and hard to police due to the transnational nature of cyberspace. Incidences of cyber crime…
A North Carolina State University researcher has developed technology designed to allow cellular communication nodes in 5G systems to partition bandwidth more efficiently in order to improve end-to-end data transmission rates. In…
Can you deceive a deceiver? That’s the question that computer scientists at Binghamton University, State University of New York have recently been exploring. Assistant Professor of Computer Science Guanhua Yan and PhD…
With billions of dollars spent each year on search engine optimization (SEO) and search engine marketing (SEM), the power of search terms holds more value than ever. But more than a few…
Threat levels for cyberattacks on the power grid are usually labeled high, medium or low. Well, that’s not good enough for a team of Iowa State University engineers. That’s too qualitative and too…
