Communications of the ACM: Security

We all know the drill. For the last decade, smartphones have gotten thinner and faster and thinner and faster and, well, you get the picture.

"Are you a hacker?"

Banks already using algorithms to monitor traders are looking to expand surveillance to cover more employees in the wake of the Wells Fargo & Co. scandal.

Law might follow German rules that let Berlin veto takeover.

The report sets as high-level goals a vision for the future of federal IT, and a plan to jumpstart government transition to that vision.

Internet service providers can access the data on Internet-connected devices people use in their homes, even when those devices are set up to protect users' privacy.

Two weeks ago it was cyberattacks on the Irish power grid. Last month it was a digital assault on U.S. energy companies, including a nuclear power plant. Back in December a Russian hack of a Vermont utility was all over the news.

Before autonomous trucks and taxis hit the road, manufacturers will need to solve problems far more complex than collision avoidance and navigation (see "10 Breakthrough Technologies 2017: Self-Driving Trucks").

Bob Hutchinson's mother told him and his siblings almost nothing about her family, no matter how often they asked. "She was good at brushing people off," said Mr. Hutchinson, 60.

The 'creator' of Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto, gave NSA investigators the only tool they needed to find him — his own words. 

The draft report warns the U.S. is falling short on its ability to defend critical systems against aggressive cyberattacks.

Not only that, facial recognition technologies inform him of who you are and what you did.

How much of your privacy would you trade for a smarter home? Internet service providers (ISPs) can peek at the internet-connected devices people use in their own homes–baby monitors, TV set-top boxes, vibrators–even when those devices are specifically set up to protect users' privacy.

Early in August, NYU professor Siddharth Garg checked for traffic, and put a yellow Post-it onto a stop sign outside the Brooklyn building in which he works.

Researchers demonstrated a cyberattack against artificial intelligence that controls driverless cars and image-recognition systems by installing an invisible backdoor in the software.

Researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel warn smartphone security can be compromised by repair shops that install replacement parts containing secret, malicious hardware. 

In the darkness of early morning on August 21, the guided-missile destroyer USS John S. McCain collided with a tanker in the Strait of Malacca off Singapore.

In a sign of the soaring demand for zeroday attacks that target software that's becoming increasingly secure, a market-leading broker is offering serious cash for weaponized exploits that work against Signal, WhatsApp, and other mobile apps that offer confidential messaging or privacy.

The U.S. National Infrastructure Advisory Council warns there is a shrinking window of opportunity to fortify critical U.S. infrastructure against a massive "9/11-level cyberattack."

Researchers say they have created an "unhackable" computer chip to boost the defenses of computer hardware.