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Lakes on the moon? Boffins think they've found the evidence
2018-05-04 07:33

Watery remains of meteorites could be trapped in craters A team of physicists have uncovered evidence that the Moon may have had liquid water on its surface at one point.…

Boffins can break into brain implant to kill or steal your thoughts
2018-04-18 18:57

Poorly protected wetware could use the brain for protection Boffins from Belgium have tested the security of a wireless brain implant called a neurostimulator and found that its unprotected...

Crypto boffins: Facebook is like Exxon. Everyone needs it, everyone despises it
2018-04-17 19:52

Panel tackles the big stories of the year RSA 2018 Speaking at the 2018 RSA conference, a board of some of the most respected names in security spoke on Tuesday and were scathing about Facebook –...

Crypto boffins: Facebook is like Exxon, Spectre shenanigans showed weakness
2018-04-17 19:52

RSA panel tackles the big stories of the year RSA 2018 Speaking at the 2018 RSA conference, a board of some of the most respected names in security spoke on Tuesday and were scathing about...

Boffins think classical crypto can outlive quantum computers
2018-04-16 05:58

Cisco backs Isara's post-quantum PKI cert test in the hope it future-proofs TLS Cisco and quantum security outfit Isara reckon they've got at least as far as alpha stage in one a problem of the...

Boffins pull off quantum leap in true random number generation
2018-04-11 20:49

Well, we been having some difficulty. Ziggy, he's, uh, spitting out some wild values A team of physicists claim to have developed a guaranteed random number generator using photons and the laws of...

Sorry spooks: Princeton boffins reckon they can hide DNS queries
2018-04-10 02:02

'Oblivious DNS' decouples users from the sites they visit The Domain Name System (DNS) is a plain-text service that lets anyone who can see “the wire” capture a user's DNS traffic and work out...