Security News

Tor Project claims FBI paid university researchers $1m to unmask Tor users (Help Net Security)
2015-11-12 10:43

Have Carnegie Mellon University researchers been paid by the FBI to unmask a subset of Tor users so that the agents could discover who operated Silk Road 2.0 and other criminal suspects on the dark we...

Researchers map out hard-to-kill, multi-layered spam botnet (Help Net Security)
2015-11-04 08:00

A dropper component sent to the Akamai researchers led them to the discovery of a spamming botnet that consists of at least 83,000 compromised systems. The botnet is multi-layered, decentralized, a...

Stanford researchers identify potential security hole in genomic data-sharing network (Help Net Security)
2015-11-03 07:15

Sharing genomic information among researchers is critical to the advance of biomedical research. Yet genomic data contains identifiable information and, in the wrong hands, poses a risk to individual ...

Researchers can identify people through walls by using wireless signals (Help Net Security)
2015-11-02 15:21

Researchers at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) have created a device that allows them to "see" what a person is doing and track his or her movement even if that person i...