Communications of the ACM
Car Hackers Could Drive You Off the Road (or They Might Settle for Money)
Automotive cybersecurity is a cat-and-mouse game, with the good guys and bad guys constantly chasing each other.
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Drones Flying Near Airports, Infrastructure Prompt U.S. Action
With consumer drone use surging in U.S. airspace above critical sites like airports, federal agencies are acting to address potential safety and security issues...
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Vulnerabilities in Billions of Wi-Fi Devices Let Hackers Bypass Firewalls
A security researcher found 12 fragmentation vulnerabilities and aggregation attack exploits in Wi-Fi systems.
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Is 5G Opening Security Holes in the Internet of Things?
The new 5G networks increase hacker access to the Internet of Things.
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An NTSB for Cyber Attacks?
Critics grapple with Biden's Cybersecurity Safety Review Board plan.
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Getting Down to Basics
2020 ACM A.M. Turing Award recipients Alfred Aho and Jeffrey Ullman helped develop formal language theory, invented efficient algorithms to drive the tasks of a...
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Jack Minker (1927–2021)
ACM Fellow Jack Minker was a leader in the development of automating logistic reasoning, but he is perhaps best known for his efforts to promote the social responsibility...
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Let the Algorithm Decide?
Algorithms fail their first test to replace student exams.
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U.S. Has Almost 500,000 Job Openings in Cybersecurity
The U.S. Commerce Department's Cyber Seek technology job-tracking database and the trade group CompTIA count about 465,000 current U.S. cybersecurity job openings...
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Shape-Shifting Computer Chip Thwarts Hackers
A secure new computer processor thwarts hackers by randomly changing its underlying structure, making it virtually impossible to hack.
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Microsoft is Retiring Web browser Internet Explorer
Some versions of the Windows operating system will continue to receive support for Internet Explorer.
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Study Explores Privacy of Prison Communications
The constant monitoring of people incarcerated in the U.S. extends to communications between inmates and their relatives.
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Cryptography Experts Trash NFTs on First Day of RSA Conference
The experts have weighed in: Non-fungible tokens are dumb as hell.
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Microsoft Warns: Watch Out for This Malware That Steals Passwords, Webcam, Browser Data
Microsoft has issued a warning over RevengeRAT, a remote access tool that has been used to target aerospace and travel industries with spear-phishing campaigns....
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Cloudflare Reveals Plan to End CAPTCHA 'Madness'
Cloudflare says the CAPTCHA system wastes nearly 500 human years every single day.
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Pipeline Hack Points to Growing Cybersecurity Risk for Energy System
Energy infrastructure has increasingly come under assault, and analysts said the attack that cut off fuel supplies this week should be a "wake-up call."
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Colonial Pipeline Paid Nearly $5 million in Ransomware Blackmail Payment
The payment was reportedly made soon after the attack began. It wasn't enough to stop the disruption.
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Security Researcher Successfully Jailbreaks Apple AirTag
German security researcher stacksmashing was able to break into, dump, and reflash the microcontroller of Apple's AirTag object-location product.
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Biden Signs Executive Order to Bolster Federal Government’s Cybersecurity
President Biden's order places strict new standards on software sold to the government.
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