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 E-Mail Fraud is going uninvestigated by police who are "hiding behind the veil" of the Action Fraud national crime reporting agency. In his paper published this week in Policing, Professor Mark Button, director of the Centre for Counter Fraud Studies at the University of Portsmouth argues that, Action Fraud, which has been widely derided, has become a useful veil from which the police can hide their inadequate response. Figures from Action Fraud, the arm of the police responsible for reco...

The world is one step closer to ultimately secure conference calls, thanks to a collaboration between Quantum Communications Hub researchers and their German colleagues, enabling a quantum-secure conversation to take place between four parties simultaneously.

A joint work from researchers of the IMDEA Software Institute, Microsoft Research and Saarland University about hardware-software contracts for secure speculation has been awarded as Best Paper at the 42nd IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy

 E-Mail IMAGE: IT experts at RUB have found several security issues with digital signatures for PDF documents over the past years. view more  Credit: RUB, Kramer A security issue in the certification signatures of PDF documents has been discovered by researchers at Ruhr-Universität Bochum. This special form of signed PDF files can be used, for instance, to conclude contracts. Unlike a normal PDF signature, the certification signature permits certain changes to be made in the document...

Columbia Engineering researchers have developed SeKVM, the first system that guarantees--through a mathematical proof--the security of virtual machines in the cloud. This is the first time that a real-world multiprocessor software system has been shown to be mathematically correct and secure, said Computer Science Professor Jason Nieh. This means that users data are correctly managed by software running in the cloud and are safe from security bugs and hackers.

 E-Mail IMAGE: Visualization of IPv6 address space by NIRVANA revision for IPv6. Each orange panel, lined up horizontally and vertically, represents an active IP address block where IPv6 communication has been observed... view more  Credit: ©National Institute of Information and Communications Technology [Highlights] - Observation of IPv6 communications, collection of IPv6-related alerts, and real-time visualization of IPv6 networks. - Expected to simplify security operations in IPv6...

 E-Mail IMAGE: Researchers from Shibaura Institute of Technology, Japan design a dual camera-based platform employing an omnidirectional camera for target detection and a separate camera for its high-resolution capture and report an... view more  Credit: Shibaura Institute of Technology, Japan If youre a fan of spy movies, youve probably come across scenes where the intelligence agents try to identify or detect a perpetrator using some sophisticated image enhancement technology on sur...

Cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin are becoming increasingly popular. Transactions are usually anonymous, fast and inexpensive. But in certain situations, fraud is possible, users can discover information about other users that should be kept secret, and sometimes delays occur. TU Wien has now developed an improved protocol which solves these problems.

 E-Mail IMAGE: Launch of SM-3 Block IB interceptor from guided-missile cruiser USS Lake Erie (CG 70). view more  Credit: U.S. Navy From engineered pandemics to city-toppling cyber attacks to nuclear annihilation, life on Earth could radically change, and soon. Scientists will forecast the fate of the planet at a press conference during the 2021 APS April Meeting. "Our Earth is 45 million centuries old. But this century is the first when one species--ours--can determine the biospheres ...

 E-Mail Credit: BYU Photo Using your face to unlock your phone is a pretty genius security protocol. But like any advanced technology, hackers and thieves are always up to the challenge, whether thats unlocking your phone with your face while you sleep or using a photo from social media to do the same. Like every other human biometric identification system before it (fingerprints, retina scans) there are still significant security flaws in some of the most advanced identity verification techno...