The idea of a network of malware-infected zombie computers rigged to do the bidding of criminals conjures up a frightening image on its own. A new visualization...Technology Review From ACM News | October 16, 2012
Malicious code apparently used by governments to spy on, harass, and sabotage one another has grabbed headlines in recent years, yet the highly targeted nature...Technology Review From ACM News | September 19, 2012
Pleasing the crowd at the Black Hat and Def Con computer security conferences that took place in Las Vegas last week is relatively easy: simply hop on stage and...Technology Review From ACM News | August 3, 2012
The U.S. Internet's infrastructure needs to be redesigned to allow the NSA to know instantly when overseas hackers might be attacking public or private infrastructure...Technology Review From ACM News | July 31, 2012
Weaknesses in the technology that allows smartphone users to pinpoint themselves on a map, or check into restaurants and bars using apps such as Foursquare, could...Technology Review From ACM News | July 27, 2012
Searching for hotels in cities they've never visited, people often turn to customer-written reviews on websites such as TripAdvisor. But how do they know those...Technology Review From ACM News | June 25, 2012
If Facebook were a country, a conceit that founder Mark Zuckerberg has entertained in public, its 900 million members would make it the third largest in the world...Technology Review From ACM News | June 14, 2012
Two weeks ago today, computer security labs in Iran, Russia, and Hungary announced the discovery of Flame, "the most complex malware ever found," according to Hungary's...Technology Review From ACM News | June 12, 2012
The Tor Project is a free network run by volunteers that hides users locations and usage from surveillance and traffic analysis.Technology Review From ACM News | April 4, 2012
A chilling demonstration to a small, packed room at the recent RSA security conference showed how clicking a single bad Web link while using a phone running Google's...Technology Review From ACM News | March 8, 2012
A chilling demonstration to a small, packed room at the RSA security conference showed how clicking a single bad Web link while using a phone running Google's Android...Technology Review From ACM News | March 2, 2012
The U.S. Department of Defense may have funded the research that led to the Internet, but freewheeling innovation created the patchwork of privately owned technology...Technology Review From ACM News | March 1, 2012
On 6 May 2010, shares on U.S. financial markets suddenly dropped on average by around 10% but in over 300 stocks by more than 60%. Moments later the prices recovered...Technology Review From ACM News | February 16, 2012
The perfect secrecy offered by quantum mechanics appears to have been scuppered by a previously unknown practical problem, say physicists.Technology Review From ACM News | January 26, 2012
Military bureaucracies around the world are likely to see offensive capabilities as increasingly attractive in any cyberwar, suggests the head of the computer...Technology Review From ACM News | December 19, 2011
In recent months, I've met at least three people who have been the victim of hackers who've taken over their Gmail accounts and sent out emails to everyone in...Technology Review From ACM News | December 15, 2011
Documents point to a huge industry that provides online surveillance tools to governments and police agencies.Technology Review From ACM News | December 13, 2011
"Carrier IQ" is a company that sells software to wireless companies that reports how well networks are performing in real-time, by sending performance data from...Technology Review From ACM News | December 5, 2011
From his 24th-floor corner office in midtown Manhattan, the veteran CBS research chief David Poltrack can gaze southward down the Avenue of the Americas, its...Technology Review From ACM News | October 27, 2011