Security News

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...