Tag: Cybersecurity

High-energy laser light detects illegal ivory products. Criminals, meanwhile, devote their energy to falsifying valuable objects such as passports. Now, a research team in China hopes to give would-be fraudsters the run around with its new hydrogel. The material is made by mixing a conductive polymer with a flexible polymer; after briefly applying an electric field, the electrically charged...

A simple system could protect cars from unauthorised entry. Log-ins, passwords and, most recently, passkeys, do the same job for email or other online accounts. Service provider logs record access, also recognising devices and IP-addresses. But experienced hackers with knowledge of this private information can use this to mask their own details during login to falsify records. Staying undetected...

When it comes to storing information, our brain can be lazy. Chatbots with AI, however, absorb even the smallest details and learn from them. Including personal details. Often these are identified through a device’s location or IP address, but sometimes they are actively provided. For example, when a chatbot is fed concrete information or emails to produce a text....

Anomalies in network traffic can be detected aurally. The amount of electronics in cars, however, is making them more and more exposed to hacking or theft. But, thanks to a US research team, there could soon be an easy solution. Drivers would simply plug the team’s device into the car’s auxiliary power outlet, which is directly connected to the...

When we speak to a person, we know straight away how they are from their tone of voice. Now, our instincts for tone and harmony are being deployed by security experts to detect anomalies in network traffic. A team of scientists from Carnegie Mellon University, USA, have developed a tool that makes it possible to listen to the exchange...