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Facebook posts reveal your hidden illnesses, say researchers
2019-06-24 10:02

The language we use could be indicators of disease and, with patient consent, could be monitored just like physical symptoms.

Researchers develop a technique to vaccinate algorithms against adversarial attacks
2019-06-24 05:15

A set of techniques to effectively vaccinate algorithms against adversarial attacks have been developed by researchers from CSIRO’s Data61. Algorithms ‘learn’ from the data they are trained on to...

IoT explodes worldwide, researchers investigate security issues present in the devices real users own
2019-06-20 05:30

About 40 percent of households across the globe now contain at least one IoT device, according to Avast. In North America, that number is almost double, at 66 percent, bringing with it an...

Netflix researcher spots TCP SACK flaws in Linux and FreeBSD
2019-06-19 12:26

Three vulnerabilities in the FreeBSD and Linux kernels could allow attackers to induce a denial-of-service by clogging networking I/O.

Researchers develop app to detect Twitter bots in any language
2019-06-18 05:00

Thanks to fruitful collaboration between language scholars and machine learning specialists, a new application that can detect Twitter bots independent of the language used was developed by...

Irked Researcher Discloses Facebook WordPress Plugin Flaws
2019-06-17 22:07

Researchers at Plugin Vulnerabilities cite grudge and irresponsibly disclose bugs in two WordPress plugins from Facebook.

Researcher Scrapes and Posts 7 Million Venmo Transactions
2019-06-17 18:24

Venmo is a peer-to-peer mobile app designed to make it easy to send and receive payments from friends. It is owned by PayPal -- and it is no stranger to security issues. read more

Google Researcher Details Windows Cryptographic Library Bug
2019-06-12 19:18

Flaw Could Cause Denial-of-Service Event in Windows Fleet, Researcher ClaimsA Google security researcher has disclosed what he calls an unpatched bug in the main cryptographic library used in...

Researchers devise RAMBleed attack to grab secret data from memory
2019-06-12 11:17

Researchers have demonstrated a new variation of the Rowhammer attack: dubbed RAMBleed, it may allow attackers to read data stored inside the computer’s physical memory. “While the end-to-end...

Researchers crack digital safe using HSM flaw
2019-06-11 10:38

French researchers have found a bug in a hardware security module (HSM) that could enable an attacker to steal highly prized secrets.