The ‘cyber securiry incident’ has affected operations at ports in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Fremantle. Ports operator DP World said Sunday it had made “significant strides” towards resuming normal freight…
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21st century Total Wars will enlist technologies in ways we don’t yet understand, researcher says
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain The war in Ukraine is not only the largest European land war since the Second World War. It is also the first large-scale shooting war between…
Accelerating AI tasks while preserving data security
SecureLoop is an MIT-developed search engine that can identify an optimal design for a deep neural network accelerator that preserves data security while improving energy efficiency and boosting performance. This…
Online games use dark designs to collect player data, researchers reveal
Games sometimes manipulate players into giving away more data than they want to. Credit: Matti Ahlgren/Aalto University Gaming is a $193 billion industry—nearly double the size of the film and…
Surveying the realm of human rights in the wake of digitalization
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain There are many challenges facing us in the digital age, especially in terms of security and privacy, safeguarding, and human rights. Research published in the International…
Open tools used for a security chip
The security chip (at the middle of the bottom) is built in flip-chip technology on an auxiliary board and plugged into a standard socket on the main board. The main…
Cars are a ‘privacy nightmare on wheels’. Here’s how they get away with collecting and sharing your data
Credit: Shutterstock Cars with internet-connected features are fast becoming all-seeing data-harvesting machines—a so-called “privacy nightmare on wheels,” according to US-based research conducted by the Mozilla Foundation. The researchers looked at…
Nonprofit service provider Blackbaud settles data breach case for $49.5M with states
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The fundraising software company Blackbaud agreed Thursday to pay $49.5 million to settle claims brought by the attorneys general of all 50 states related to a…
Many Dutch municipalities do not yet respond adequately to security vulnerabilities, research finds
Many local authorities respond too slowly or inadequately to reports about security vulnerabilities. These coordinated vulnerability disclosures (CVD reports) are often made by ethical hackers who aim to make the…
