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Cybersecurity Experts Researching How to Keep Medical Devices Secure, Communicating on Hospital Networks
September 5, 2012 What if you could shut down several emergency rooms simultaneously without leaving your own home? How about hacking a pacemaker and reprogramming it to cause a heart attack? Although these could be ... > full story -
Frankenstein Programmers Test a Cybersecurity Monster
August 27, 2012 To catch a thief, you have to think like one. Computer scientists are trying to stay one step ahead of cyberattackers by creating their own monster. Their monster can cloak itself as it steals and ... > full story -
Physicists Search for Hidden Magnetic States
August 24, 2012 Physicists have used the new high magnetic-field beamline at Diamond Light Source, the UK's national synchrotron facility, to search for 'hidden magnetic states'. If found, they will provide ... > full story -
Researchers Make Quantum Processor Capable of Factoring a Composite Number Into Prime Factors
August 19, 2012 Computing prime factors may sound like an elementary math problem, but try it with a large number, say one that contains more than 600 digits, and the task becomes enormously challenging and ... > full story -
Single Sign-on for Internet Use Had Major Vulnerabilites: Many Now Fixed
August 15, 2012 Online shopping, cloud computing, online CRM systems: Each day many IT systems require the user to identify himself/herself. Single Sign-On (SSO) systems were introduced to circumvent this problem, ... > full story -
Speedy Ions Could Add Zip to Quantum Computers
August 13, 2012 Take that, sports cars! Physicists can accelerate their beryllium ions from zero to 100 miles per hour and stop them in just a few microseconds. The researchers think their zippy ions may be useful ... > full story -
Quantum Cryptography Theory Has a Demonstrated Security Defect
August 10, 2012 Researchers have just demonstrated the incompleteness and limit of the security theory in quantum key distribution. The present theory cannot guarantee unconditional ... > full story -
Security Risk: Sensitive Data Can Be Harvested from a PC Even If It Is in Standby Mode, Experts Say
August 10, 2012 When you switch off your computer any passwords you used to login to web pages, your bank or other financial account evaporate into the digital ether, right? Not so fast! Researchers in Greece have ... > full story -
Major Step Taken Towards 'Unbreakable' Message Exchange
August 3, 2012 Single particles of light, also known as photons, have been produced and implemented into a quantum key distribution (QKD) link, paving the way for unbreakable communication ... > full story -
Data Storage: Memory That Does It All
August 2, 2012 Using the correct annealing temperature is key to making fast, non-volatile computer ... > full story
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