Electronic eavesdropping is becoming ever more nefarious in the age of smartphones and digital devices.
Researchers have developed a programming tool enabling high-performance cryptographic code to be verifiably correct and secure.
Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley and collaborators have proposed a method for detecting credential spear-phishing attacks.
In a move likely to escalate tensions between Washington and Moscow, the Department of Homeland Security has ordered all federal agencies to stop using software made by the Russian cybersecurity firm Kaspersky Lab, citing concerns that the Moscow-based firm's software could give the Kremlin a foothold in the U.S. government.
A whiff of dystopian creepiness has long wafted in the air whenever facial recognition has come up. Books, movies and television shows have portrayed the technology as mainly a tool of surveillance and social control—aimed by unseen others at you, for their purposes, not your own.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration's first major recall of pacemakers due to a cybersecurity risk highlights a national need for research and education on embedded security.
It is relatively easy for hackers to buy enough personal information to potentially rig online voter registration information in as many as 35 states and Washington, D.C.
The new iPhone X puts face recognition front and centre. Why? Because it is the quickest and easiest way to unlock your phone.
The chairman of the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said on Tuesday "operational limitations" in the Tesla Model S played a "major role" in a May 2016 crash that killed a driver using the vehicle's semi-autonomous "Autopilot" system.
The fundamentally different paradigm of quantum computation will require fundamentally different security.
Swamped by too much raw intel data to sift through, U.S. spy agencies are pinning their hopes on artificial intelligence to crunch billions of digital bits and understand events around the world.
It's troubling to think that at any moment you might open an email that looks like it comes from your employer, a relative or your bank, only to fall for a phishing scam.
Researchers have discovered security problems in smart lighting systems developed by GE, IKEA, Phillips, and Osram.
New algorithms can accurately determine when drivers are texting or engaged in other distracting activities.
Frank Chen's e-commerce business has nothing to do with politics but he worries it might be sunk by the Communist Party's latest effort to control what the Chinese public sees online.
Any doubt that Russia has been running a strategically targeted disinformation campaign in the United States was erased on Wednesday, when Facebook revealed that it had deleted 470 "inauthentic" accounts that were based in Russia and had paid $100,000 to promote divisive ads during the 2016 presidential election.
For many Russian students, the academic year started last Friday with tips on planetary domination from President Vladimir Putin.
Sometimes an international offensive begins with a few shots that draw little notice.
A team of researchers has been conducting experiments into improving password security.
Researchers have developed a method to hijack intelligent voice assistant using sounds above the range of human hearing.
