Iowa State's Suraj Kothari is leading researchers from Iowa State University and Ames, Iowa-based EnSoft Corp. who are developing ways to secure smartphone software for the Defense Department.
Researchers used a novel methodology to gain new neurological insights into how users face security questions and how their personalities might affect their performance.
The paper proposes and tests four two-factor schemes that require servers to store a randomized hash of the passwords and a second device, such as the user’s security token or smartphone, to store a corresponding secret code.
Researchers at Georgia Tech have created a prototype software, Gyrus, that takes extra steps to prevent malware from sending spam emails and instant messages, and blocking unauthorized commands such as money transfers.
Book provides a history of cyber crime and case studies related to individuals’ use of technology to commit a crime.
The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego, is collaborating with Leidos (formerly Science Applications International Corporation) to develop a reference system architecture aimed at increasing security levels of microgrid control and IT systems used to manage electrical microgrids worldwide.
Today’s cyber attacks aren’t just a threat to computer networks. Those with malicious intent can disrupt important infrastructure systems such as utilities. To counter this threat, the Department of Energy has awarded $1.7 million to help detect cyber attacks on our nation’s utility companies.
With full-fledged cyberwar becoming an increasingly likely possibility in the 21st century, one cybersecurity scholar calls on nations to extend the rules of war to cyberconflicts.
Researchers at Iowa State University are working to add some accountability to online anonymity. They've developed a technology that offers anonymity for honest users and accountability for dishonest users.
Experts in anthropology and cybersecurity are examining the unspoken knowledge shared by cybersecurity analysts as a way to develop new automated tools that help analysts strengthen their cyber defenses.
As more businesses find their way into the cloud, few engage in security measures beyond those provided by the associated cloud storage firm, a new report from Georgia Tech notes. Even fewer seek heightened data protection because of concerns that usability and access to remote data would be significantly reduced.
Stephen B. Wicker, electronic surveillance and privacy expert, professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cornell University and author of “Cellular Convergence and the Death of Privacy,” discusses how technology, social trends and government policy have opened the floodgates for surveillance and eroded privacy worldwide.
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