The world’s largest computing society, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), updated its code of ethics in July 2018 – but new research from North Carolina State University shows that the code of ethics…
The National Student Clearinghouse, in partnership with EDUCAUSE and the Research and Education Networking Information Sharing and Analysis Center (REN-ISAC), released on Monday a white paper, “Cybersecurity: Why It Matters to Registrars,…
Cyberattacks grow in prominence each and every day; in fact, 2017 was the worst year to-date for data breaches, with the number of cyber incidents targeting businesses nearly doubling from 2016 to 2017.…
The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released a study that estimates a $250 billion economic impact from the development of its Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) over the…
Smartphones and laptops seem ubiquitous at U.S. universities, but there is still a “digital divide,” with some students less likely than others to have consistent access to reliable technology, according to a…
Have you ever used your credit card at a new store or location only to have it declined? Has a sale ever been blocked because you charged a higher amount than usual?…
The promise of wearables, functional fabrics, the Internet of Things, and their “next-generation” technological cohort seems tantalizingly within reach. But researchers in the field will tell you a prime reason for their…
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) has awarded Intafel Corp. of Cambridge, Massachusetts $167,870 to develop a virtual machine capability to protect the operations of financial services. Intafel received…
Many women in doctoral degree programs in fields like engineering and physics are in a class of their own – and that’s not a good thing. A new study found that the…
All of the grand challenges facing humanity – ranging from healthcare to cybersecurity to environmental resilience – have this in common: Solving them will require increasingly sophisticated connections between the cyber and…
