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Let's recap reCAPTCHA gotcha: Our cunning AI can defeat Google's anti-bot tech, say uni boffins
2019-09-04 18:56

Machine-learning code developed to solve image puzzles just like us netizens Video US-based academics have developed a machine-learning system to beat Google's bot-detecting reCAPTCHA system.…

Brilliant Boston boffins blow big borehole in Bluetooth's ballyhooed barricades: MAC addy randomization broken
2019-07-12 20:31

Scrambling addresses can't always hide you from stalkers, say eggheads A team of US academics have proposed a simple method to defeat the Bluetooth LE standard's anti-tracking measures.…

Boffins ready to go live with system that will track creatures great and small from space
2019-07-09 13:00

From elephants to fish, there's no GDPR in the animal kingdom Boffins at the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology are finally ready to switch on Icarus – a system that will track the migration of...

Open-heart nerdery: Boffins suggest identifying and logging in people using ECGs
2019-06-25 11:57

Heartbeat rhythms could be the next biometric authentication method Biometric systems could use the unique patterns from a person's ECG reading for biometric sign-ons.…

Look, we've tried, but we just can't write this headline without saying boffins have probed Uranus's cold ring
2019-06-21 05:06

Cluster of rock and ice a sweltering 77K, we're told Astronomers have measured the temperature of one of Uranus’s rings, dubbed Epsilon, for the first time. The result: the cluster of ice and rock...

Let adware be treated as malware, Canuck boffins declare after breaking open Wajam ad injector
2019-05-20 10:05

If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck then... Analysis The technology industry has numerous terms for sneaky software, including malware, adware, spyware, ransomware, and the ever...

The plane, it's 'splained, falls mainly without the brain: We chat to boffins who've found a way to disrupt landings using off-the-shelf radio kit
2019-05-16 21:03

DoS cyber-attacks are not just for websites, they may also be for aircraft ILS Video Aircraft instrument landing systems (ILS) are susceptible to radio signal spoofing using off-the-shelf...

Data-spewing Spectre chip flaws can't be killed by software alone, Google boffins conclude
2019-02-18 07:05

While browsers have got their act together, any other apps interpreting user-supplied code need to be aware of this Google security researchers have analyzed the impact of the data-leaking Spectre...

New side-channel leak: Boffins bash operating system page caches until they spill secrets
2019-01-05 01:30

Novel data-siphoning attack is hardware agnostic Some of the computer security boffins who revealed last year's data-leaking speculative-execution holes have identified yet another side-channel...

In case you're not already sick of Spectre... Boffins demo Speculator tool for sniffing out data-leaking CPU holes
2018-12-07 23:59

First proof-of-concept, SplitSpectre, requires fewer instructions in victim Analysis You've patched your Intel, AMD, Power, and Arm gear to crush those pesky data-leaking speculative execution...