Researchers discovered the Syslogk Linux rootkit delivers a backdoor trojan hides on a targeted machine until triggered.
ZDNet From ACM TechNews | June 21, 2022
Paige Thompson's lawyers said she had been looking for cracks so they could be fixed. A jury found her guilty of wire fraud and hacking charges.
The New York Times From ACM News | June 20, 2022
Two new security techniques block power and electromagnetic side-channel attacks targeting analog-to-digital converters in smart devices.
MIT News From ACM TechNews | June 17, 2022
The U.S. Department of Justice increasingly is being allowed to delete malware from Americans' computers without their knowledge or authorization.
Politico From ACM TechNews | June 15, 2022
Bank depositors in China said a protest in Henan province was halted by authorities using COVID surveillance infrastructure to turn health code applications red...Reuters From ACM TechNews | June 15, 2022
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration warned that certain Illumina DNA-sequencing machines have a software vulnerability that could jeopardize patient data.
Bloomberg From ACM TechNews | June 14, 2022
Civilians in Ukraine are recording three-dimensional models of artifacts in a permanent digital archive as part of Backup Ukraine, a project to save the country's...CNN From ACM TechNews | June 13, 2022
Austrian security researcher Martin Herfurt has demonstrated that electric vehicle company Tesla's updated near-field communication key card can be hacked.
Ars Technica From ACM TechNews | June 10, 2022
A beam-steering antenna can boost the efficiency of data transmission across the millimeter wave spectrum.
University of Birmingham (U.K.) From ACM TechNews | June 8, 2022
Scientists in Germany have developed a technique that uses radio waves to monitor hardware for tampering.
Ruhr-Universität Bochum (Germany) From ACM TechNews | June 8, 2022
In myth, the cryptocurrency is egalitarian, decentralized and all but anonymous. The reality is very different, scientists have found.
The New York Times From ACM News | June 8, 2022
As governments crack down on ransomware, cybercriminals may soon shift to business email compromise—already the world's most profitable type of scam.
Wired From ACM News | June 6, 2022
OpenSea, one of the highest-profile crypto start-ups, is facing a backlash over stolen and plagiarized nonfungible tokens.
The New York Times From ACM News | June 6, 2022
Google employees claim a senior researcher fired earlier this year sought to undermine two more junior AI researchers by suggesting their results were wrong or...Wired From ACM News | June 6, 2022
The researchers said they found "several out-of-bound read issues when the NAS handler functions read data from outside the Non-Access Stratum (NAS) message."
The Record From ACM News | June 3, 2022