Computing We need a cyber arms control treaty to keep hospitals and power grids safe from hackers A fresh diplomatic push could help put vital public services off limits to nation-state cyberattacks. by Martin Giles 2018-10-01T10:45:00-04:00
Intelligent Machines Hackers Are the Real Obstacle for Self-Driving Vehicles Out-of-work truckers armed with “adversarial machine learning” could dazzle autonomous vehicles into crashing. by Simson Garfinkel 2017-08-22T00:00:00-04:00
Connectivity Neuroscience Explains Why We Get Hacked So Easily A study of how the brain reacts to security alerts led Google to test a new way to warn people that their computers may have been infected with malware. by Tom Simonite 2017-02-02T13:09:00-05:00
Intelligent Machines Botnets Could Meet Their Match in Robot Hackers Software called Mayhem that won a $2 million Pentagon hacking prize is being prepared to go to work fixing up the Internet. by Tom Simonite 2017-02-01T13:46:00-05:00
Connectivity Quantum Computing Paranoia Creates a New Industry Even though quantum computers don’t exist yet, security companies are preparing to protect against them. by Tom Simonite 2017-01-30T16:22:00-05:00
Connectivity How Hackers Could Send Your Polling Station into Chaos Election security experts say officials should prepare for cyberattacks that target data about voters. by Mike Orcutt 2016-10-05T00:00:00-04:00
Connectivity This AI Will Craft Tweets That You’ll Never Know Are Spam Machine-learning software could be used as effective cybercriminal sidekicks. by Tom Simonite 2016-08-04T17:00:00-04:00
Connectivity DARPA Hopes Automation Can Create the Perfect Hacker Seven Pentagon supercomputers are getting ready to attack one another. by Tom Simonite 2016-07-13T14:40:00-04:00
Connectivity Companies Are Stockpiling Bitcoin to Pay Off Cybercriminals The rise of malware that holds data hostage has led companies to buy Bitcoin to use as ransom in case of an attack. by Tom Simonite 2016-06-07T13:50:00-04:00
Connectivity With Hospital Ransomware Infections, the Patients Are at Risk Ransomware that locks up patient data in hospitals is disrupting medical care, and the problem is set to get worse. by Tom Simonite 2016-04-01T00:00:00-04:00
