Computer forensics researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) have been tracking new spam that claims to come from the U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance...niversity of Alabama at Birmingham From ACM TechNews | October 29, 2009
Security researchers at Cryptography Research say the smart card attack involving differential power analysis could be used to target smartphones. Cryptography...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | October 27, 2009
Internationalized domain names (IDNs) will be one of the central topics at ICANN’s 36th International Public Meeting, which takes place October 25-30 in Seoul,...SA Today From ACM TechNews | October 27, 2009
A scan of the Internet by Columbia University researchers searching for vulnerable embedded devices has found that nearly 21,000 routers, Webcams, and VoIP products...Wired News From ACM TechNews | October 26, 2009
Internet security experts say that worms, spam, viruses and hackers could be well on their way into your smartphone, whose rising popularity makes them sweeter...CNN From ACM News | October 26, 2009
A new proposal from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's (MIT's) Human Dynamics Laboratory suggests that digital identities would be more secure if they...New Scientist From ACM TechNews | October 23, 2009
A new study by researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) suggests that leading cloud-computing...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | October 23, 2009
University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) professor Bhavani Thuraisingham, director of UTD's CyberSecurity Research Center, believes it is possible to establish data...niversity of Texas at Dallas From ACM TechNews | October 22, 2009
The Expeditions in Computing program provides scientists with the funding to work on ambitious, often multidisciplinary research.Gregory Goth From Communications of the ACM | November 1, 2009
The first $1,000 Gordon Prize in Managing Cybersecurity Resources goes for an essay written by researchers from Harvard and Dresden, Germany. Maryland's Robert...niversity of Maryland, College Park From ACM News | October 20, 2009
Internet security experts have discovered that many phishers are using a trick called a flux, which allows a fake Web site to rapidly change its URL, making it... From ACM TechNews | October 19, 2009
The University of Science and Technology of China recently demonstrated a metropolitan quantum cryptography network (QCN) for use by the government in Wuhu, China...Science in China Press From ACM TechNews | October 19, 2009
At the recent International Conference on Applied Modeling and Information Security Systems, high-performance computing researchers cautioned that worldwide computer...niversity of Alabama at Birmingham From ACM TechNews | October 19, 2009
Northeastern University is launching an online graduate degree program in information assurance (IA). The program, which will train students to tackle identity...Northeastern niversity From ACM News | October 16, 2009
The U.S. National Science Foundation has awarded a $2.7 million grant to an eight-state consortium of technology centers and community colleges that is working...The Associated Press From ACM News | October 15, 2009
A study from the RAND Corp. suggests the United States should focus on defending critical civilian and military computer networks from cyberattack, but does not...RAND Corp. From ACM TechNews | October 13, 2009
Auburn University researchers have developed a software filter that protects computers against distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks without bogging down...Network World From ACM TechNews | October 9, 2009
People are increasingly using household robots for chores, communication, entertainment and companionship. But safety and privacy risks of information-gathering...niversity of Washington From ACM News | October 9, 2009
U.S. computer networks are most threatened by terrorist organizations that may purchase software code from cybercrooks to hack into sensitive platforms, a possibility...NextGov.com From ACM TechNews | October 8, 2009
Networked media means a lot to two different groups. To the billions of Web users worldwide, it is the stuff that makes the Web so great — the 3D games, the mobile... From ICT Results | October 1, 2009