Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain SMU Associate Professor Christoph Treude examines the foundations for studies on open-source software and protestware. “Software developers don’t develop everything from scratch,” he says. “Just like…
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An integrated shuffler optimizes the privacy of personal genomic data used for machine learning
KAUST researchers developed a machine-learning approach aimed at preserving privacy while analyzing omics data for medical research. Credit: 2024 KAUST; Heno Hwang By integrating an ensemble of privacy-preserving algorithms, a…
Research describes new protocol for stopping network interlopers
Credit: Texas A&M Engineering Dr. Santosh Ganji, a recent computer engineering doctoral graduate, and Dr. P.R. Kumar, a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas A&M…
How automation is assisting forensic scientists in shoe print identification
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain On the morning of Dec. 21, 1999, William Fyfe went to a clothing drop-off at Trinity Church in Toronto and left three pairs of running shoes.…
How secure is your security camera? Hackers can spy on cameras through walls, new research finds
Credit: Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University When it comes to protecting a bank or even your home, security cameras are on one of the first lines of defense. But what if those…
How to spot a deepfake
Created by our researchers using Midjourney, these diffusion model deepfakes illustrate the increasing realism and sophistication of the technology. Credit: CSIRO In a world where you can create a virtual…
A criminal actor is to blame for a dayslong cyberattack on a Chicago hospital, officials say
Lurie Children’s Hospital sign is seen at the hospital as patients walk in, Monday, Feb. 5, 2024, in Skokie, Ill. A Chicago children’s hospital has been forced to take its…
Russian sentenced to five years in prison for Trickbot malware
A Russian man involved in developing the Trickbot malware has been sentenced to more than five years in prison in Ohio. A Russian man has been sentenced to more than…
Face recognition technology follows a long analog history of surveillance and control based on physical features
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain American Amara Majeed was accused of terrorism by the Sri Lankan police in 2019. Robert Williams was arrested outside his house in Detroit and detained in…
Microsoft says state-backed Russian hackers accessed emails of senior leadership team members
The Microsoft logo is shown at the Mobile World Congress 2023 in Barcelona, Spain, on March 2, 2023. In a blog post Friday, Jan. 19, 2024, Microsoft says state-backed Russian…
