Communications of the ACM
Developing Unbreakable Phone Screens
Seeking to head off a shattering experience when a smartphone is dropped.
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Hundreds of HP Printer Models Vulnerable to Remote Code Execution
HP issued security advisories for three critical-severity vulnerabilities impacting its LaserJet Pro, Pagewide Pro, OfficeJet, Enterprise, Large Format, and DeskJet...
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Spam Texts From Your Own Number? 'Bad Actors' Sent Them, Verizon Says
The wireless carrier said that it was working with the F.B.I. and the Secret Service to investigate a recent wave of fraudulent messages, but said the source did...
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Researchers Protect Solar Technologies from Cyberattack
University of Georgia researchers unveiled a sensor system that watches power electronic converters at solar energy farms for signs of cyberattack in real time....
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Tiny, Cheap Solution for Quantum-Secure Encryption
Researchers at Washington State University in St. Louis have proposed a quantum-secure system that is inexpensive, convenient, and scalable.
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Behold, a Password Phishing Site that Can Trick Even Savvy Users
A proof-of-concept "browser in the browser" exploit could phish passwords using a malicious site that does not contain suspicious domains or substitute letters....
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Do EV Charging Stations Open the Power Grid to Attack?
Electric vehicle Charging Station Management Systems need greater focus on security.
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Mysterious Satellite Hack Has Victims Far Beyond Ukraine
The biggest hack since Russia's war began knocked thousands of people offline. The spillover extends deep into Europe.
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Greece's National Postal Service Restoring Systems After Ransomware Attack
ELTA has released multiple updates on the situation after reporting on Monday that it was struggling to deal with a ransomware attack they discovered on Sunday...
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Corrupted Open Source Software Enters the Russian Battlefield
A programmer behind the popular open-source npm program node-ipc poisoned it with malware that erased the hard drives of computers located in Russia or Belarus....
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Deepfakes Trying to Change the Course of War
Deepfake videos are being used to manipulate the course of the war in Ukraine.
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EU Takes Aim at Big Tech's Power With Landmark Digital Act
The European Union was expected to finalize the Digital Markets Act, the most sweeping legislation to regulate tech since a European privacy law was passed in 2018...
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Hackers Hit Authentication Firm Okta, Customers 'May Have Been Impacted'
Authentication services provider Okta reported a hacker breach that may have impacted some of its customers.
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Anonymous Claims it Hacked Russia's Central Bank
Group has already leaked thousands of Kremlin documents relating to the war.
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The FTC's New Enforcement Weapon Spells Death for Algorithms
It may have found a new standard for penalizing tech companies that violate privacy and use deceptive data practices: algorithmic destruction.
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How Native Americans Try to Debug AI's Biases
At the recent American Indian Science and Engineering Society, students in a workshop created metadata to train an algorithm to understand an image's cultural significance...
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A Big Bet to Kill the Password for Good
FIDO is looking to get to the heart of what still makes passwordless schemes tough to navigate.
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The Workaday Life of the World's Most Dangerous Ransomware Gang
A Ukrainian researcher leaked 60,000 messages from inside Conti. Here's what they reveal.
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Can AI Learn to Forget?
Specialized techniques may make it possible to induce selective 'amnesia' in machine learning models.
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