Patrick McDaniel, Distinguished Professor of Computer Science and Engineering and the William L. Weiss Chair in Information and Communications Technology, Penn State College of Engineering, has been awarded a National Science Foundation…
Nearly every aspect of our daily lives – from shopping for groceries through a smartphone app to keeping up with friends and family on social media, or relying on smart grid technology…
Cyber-security researchers have identified a total of at least 57 different ways in which cyber-attacks can have a negative impact on individuals, businesses and even nations, ranging from threats to life, causing…
When it comes to improving the cybersecurity posture of the nation’s critical infrastructure and vital data assets, there are a host of questions that need to be answered before actionable cybersecurity risk-management…
According to U.S. Army Research Laboratory electronics engineer Dr. Charles Kamhoua, technology has been the cause of many changes. Among the changes made are to our language. “No longer does the word…
In January the technology world was rattled by the discovery of Meltdown and Spectre, two major security vulnerabilities in the processors that can be found in virtually every computer on the planet.…
In recent years, terrorists have used cars as their weapon of choice. These incidents involved human operators, but another sinister possibility looms: a vehicle cyber hack intended to cause human harm. While…
In 2017, there were at least 477 healthcare data breaches reported to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) or the media, affecting 5.579 million patient healthcare records. These breaches cost approximately $408 per…
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and FICO on Thursday released the first national cybersecurity assessment at the Chamber’s Seventh Annual Cybersecurity Summit. The U.S. Chamber’s Assessment of Business Cybersecurity (ABC), powered by the FICO Cyber…
The all-too-common practice of using the same email address/password combination to log into multiple websites can be damaging, especially for employers with many users and valuable assets protected by passwords, like universities.…
