The Biden administration announces a cybersecurity labeling program for smart devices

The seal of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is seen before an FCC meeting to vote on net neutrality in Washington, Dec. 14, 2017. The Biden administration and major consumer…

A surprisingly simple way to foil car thieves

An experimental prototype of the Battery Sleuth authenticator device installed in a vehicle. Credit: Kang Shin Skyrocketing vehicle theft rates in some U.S. cities have drawn attention to an inconvenient…

Satellite security lags decades behind the state of the art

The inside of a small satellite. Credit: RUB, Marquard Thousands of satellites are currently orbiting the Earth, and there will be many more in the future. Researchers from Ruhr University…

‘I’ve never had to wait weeks for a fence…’

by Everton Bailey Jr. Credit: CC0 Public Domain Blake Smith was confused when his contractor told him at the end of June that the city of Dallas still hadn’t approved…

Study addresses privacy-preserving collaborative data collection and analysis with many missing values

Stressed for a bit? Then don’t click it, cybersecurity experts advise

Workers who are feeling distressed are more likely to click on a phishing email, according to new human factors research at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Credit: Timothy Holland | Pacific…

UCLA confirms it was hit by cyberattack but offers few details

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain UCLA says it is the latest victim of a cyberattack, but university officials did not specify what information was accessed or whether any information was posted…

The latest victim of the MOVEit data breach is the Department of Health and Human Services

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Federal health officials have notified Congress of a data breach that could involve the information of more than 100,000 people. A representative of the U.S. Department…

Keeping the backdoor secure in your robust machine learning model

The visible distributed trigger is shown in Figure 1(a) and the target label is seven (7). The training data is modified. We see this in Figure 1(b) and the model…

A lightweight block cipher based on dynamic S-box