Six researchers receive grants for world-class technical research. Australian researchers from three universities have stood out in this year’s Google Faculty Research Awards, a highly competitive international grants program that drew 910 proposals from more than 320 academic institutions. Six researchers from RMIT University, University of NSW and Monash University have been awarded funding for research projects into information and systems engineering, data analytics, and IoT cyber secu...
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Meanwhile, experts have been critical. Robert Graham of Errata Security posted a blog titled, That NBC story 100% fraudulent. "The 'hack' happens because of the websites they visit (Olympic themed websites), not their physical location. The results would've been the same in America." He adds, "The phone didn't 'get' hacked; Richard Engel initiated the download of a hostile Android app onto his phone."...
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The OpenSSL team has announced patches for 14 vulnerabilities in the open source SSL/TLS software including fixes for the FREAK flaw and a high severity DoS issue....
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BlackBerry Ltd. has long held that its BlackBerry devices are among the most secure in the world, but it turns out the platform isn’t as bulletproof as many had been led to believe....
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Earlier this year, a disturbing piece of news on the other side of the world became a prime example of the growing menace of serious cyber attacks. South Korea’s spy agency informed government lawmakers that the number of North Korean cyber attacks had doubled in only one month. That was February – versus January. North Korea unsuccessfully tried to hack into South Korea’s railway control system and into the computer networks of financial institutions. South Korea’s Natio...
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Things got hysterical last weekend when a month-old FBI search warrant application surfaced in headlines hyping the FBI's belief that Roberts tried to fly the plane by hacking in through the in-flight entertainment system....
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