Broadcom baits hook with promise of $1.5bn investment fund to catch Qualcomm Telco promises to pump big bucks into 5G if US signs off on merger Networks07 Mar 2018 | 3
Your shoe, chewing gum, or ciggies are now your extra password Boffins explore personal items as 2FA tokens using computer vision code AI + ML25 Oct 2017 | 25
Harvard, MIT boffins ink up with health-monitoring 'smart' tats Cutting-edge tattoo checks your blood sugar, still disappoints your mother Science29 Sep 2017 | 15
Has science gone too far, part 97: Boffins craft code to find protesters on social networks, rate them on their violence Image-recognition system posited as reporting tool AI + ML21 Sep 2017 | 25
Government lab that gives a crap pushes open source Boffins reveal code for turning cow pies into cash Software13 Sep 2017 | 10
Boffins fear we might be running out of ideas Research just isn't as effective as it used to be Science11 Sep 2017 | 93
Brazilians waxed: Uni's Tor relay node booted after harvesting .onions Researchers kicked off network for slurping hidden services en masse Security25 Aug 2017 | 29
Berkeley boffins build better spear-phishing black-box bruiser Machine learning and code to detect and alert attempts to extract passwords from staff Security18 Aug 2017 | 8
Dismayed by woeful AI chatbots, boffins hired real people – and went back to square one Analysis Amazon Turk serfs have their own problems AI + ML14 Aug 2017 | 20
Science sugar daddy extends data-sharing policy to software Wellcome Trust wants boffins to share Science25 Jul 2017 | 7
Boffins back bubbles for better bonding with beautiful belongings AKA how to watermark 3D printed stuff with air bubbles Science21 Jul 2017 | 15
Texas says 'howdy' to completely driverless robo-cars on its roads King of the (autonomous) Hill Science16 Jun 2017 | 22
Shine on, you crazy Eind minds: Boffins fire out 43Gbps infrared 'Wi-Fi' Super fast but you'll need line-of-sight Networks18 Mar 2017 | 33
UK govt's £17.3m AI-boffinry cash injection is just 'a token amount' Blighty's machine learning and robotics strategy lags behind other countries, say experts AI + ML03 Mar 2017 | 13
MIT goes down to the wire: Brain cable pipes electricity, chemicals, light straight into minds Polymer highway into the head promises easier neurological monitoring Science23 Feb 2017 | 7
Interview: AARNet's Peter Elford on Australia's national research infrastructure What bits of the boffins' cloud do we build ourselves? HPC12 Feb 2017 |
Infosec industry to drive machine learning spend surge says analyst Amid the AI hype is a real chance to spot more anomalous behaviour, faster Security31 Jan 2017 | 2
Ransomware scum face unified white hat army BitDefender, Trend Micro, Check Point, Emisoft, others, join No More Ransom project Security16 Dec 2016 | 18
Dear hackers, Ubuntu's app crash reporter will happily execute your evil code on a victim's box To everyone else, get patching Security15 Dec 2016 | 26
Bluetooth-enabled safe lock popped after attackers win PINs If you use one, stop now. If you write heist movies, write safe-crackers out of your script Security15 Dec 2016 | 53
Microsoft boffins think VR visions will rival drugs by 2027 No more search boxes, no work benefits, and your social value will be your data trail On-Prem06 Dec 2016 | 25
Hackers waste Xbox One, PS4, MacBook, Pixel, with USB zapper VIDS What would happen if someone sticks this USBBQ into an airplane seat socket? Security02 Dec 2016 | 63
American supremacy, space, liability, funding, openness – AI gurus lay it all out to US senators Analysis The race is on to be the best in the world AI + ML01 Dec 2016 | 22
SHIFT + F10, Linux gets you Windows 10's cleartext BitLocker key Don't panic, because this one's a bit esoteric. Do feel free to face-palm anyway OSes01 Dec 2016 | 69
Poison .JPG spreading ransomware through Facebook Messenger Cick-to-self-p0wn attack sneaks Locky ransomware past Zuck's security model Security25 Nov 2016 | 34
UK PM Theresa May's £2bn in R&D still a drop in the ocean Increases proportion of spend from around 0.5% of GDP to, er, 0.6% Legal21 Nov 2016 | 25
IoT worm can hack Philips Hue lightbulbs, spread across cities Easy chain reaction hack would spread across Paris, boffins say Security10 Nov 2016 | 81
Hackers pop top 'secure' wireless keyboard and mouse kits, gain RCE Ruxcon Patch? Nah, we'll just remove 'secure' from the tin: vendor Security24 Oct 2016 | 12
Brute force cred crunchers gifted Username Anarchy Ruxcon dpauli, darren.pauli, darrenp, pauli.darren, paulid Security24 Oct 2016 | 7
Google pays $100k to anti-malware crusader Giovanni Vigna Prolific malware murderer bags Mountain View's Security, Privacy and Anti-Abuse award Security21 Oct 2016 | 1
Security research tool had security problem Plugin for popular disassembler OllyDbg allowed man-in-the-middle diddle Security20 Oct 2016 | 1
Reading this? Then you can pop root shells on Markvision enterprises Twin bug bombs perish with patch Security20 Oct 2016 |
Audit sees VeraCrypt kill critical password recovery, cipher flaws Patches slung at 11 bad bugs Security18 Oct 2016 | 16
Time to crack down on sales of dragon's gold - securobods Coin of the gaming realm used for money laundering, malware and more Security13 Oct 2016 | 6
'Geek gene' denied: If you find computer science hard, it's your fault (or your teacher's) And you find it easy, it's through hard work – not a 'gift' Software28 Sep 2016 | 77
Hackers hijack Tesla Model S from afar, while the cars are moving Video Chinese researchers control brakes, lights and mirrors with wireless attack Software20 Sep 2016 | 62
Remote hacker nabs Win10 logins in 'won't-fix' Safe Mode* attack *Turns out to be very unsafe mode thanks to this hack Security16 Sep 2016 | 37
Top infosec vendors, cops, liberate thousands from ransomware 'No More Ransom' alliance gives users decryption and defence tools Security14 Sep 2016 | 2
Infected Android phones could flood America's 911 with DDoS attacks One killer trojanised app or $100k of hardware is enough. Security13 Sep 2016 | 21
New science: Pathetic humans can't bring themselves to fire lovable klutz-bots All is forgiven, you gaffe-prone cyber-cooks. You're one of us Science20 Aug 2016 | 41
If this headline was a security warning, 90% of you would ignore it Boffins find interrupting users with pop-ups in the middle of things just doesn't work Security18 Aug 2016 | 48
Forensics tool nabs data from Signal, Telegram, WhatsApp USENIX VID 'Retroscope' smartphone app can retrieve your last five screens Security15 Aug 2016 | 8
Stealthy malware infects digitally-signed files without altering hashes Black Hat Grinding research finds gold in failed header checks Security08 Aug 2016 | 13
Latest Androids have 'god mode' hack hole, thanks to Qualcomm Nexus users move right along. Everyone else, read on and hope your mobe-maker fixes it Security08 Aug 2016 | 48
Microsoft stops to smell the roses, creates the Shazam of flowers Cross-pollination with boffins helps those who can't tell a daffodil from a daisy Software26 Jul 2016 | 11
15-year-old security hole HTTPoxy returns to menace websites – it has a name, logo too So you know it's really scary Security18 Jul 2016 | 19
Drowning Dalek commands Siri in voice-rec hack attack Boffins embed barely-audible-to-humans commands inside vids to fool virtual assistants Security11 Jul 2016 | 40
Copy paste slacker hackers pop corp locks in ode to stolen code Github, your ticket to world domination Security08 Jul 2016 |
414,949 D-Link cameras, IoT devices can be hijacked over the net Waiting for the worms to come Security08 Jul 2016 | 21
Loose wrists shake chips: Your wrist-job could be a PIN-snitch Smart watch, dumb botch: sensor sensitivity equals insecurity say boffins Edge + IoT07 Jul 2016 | 31
Outed China ad firm infects 10m Androids, makes $300k a month Check Point slayers reveal building address, pop panels, publish office floor plan. Security06 Jul 2016 | 15
Gigabyte BIOS blight fright: Your megabytes’ rewrite plight in the spotlight Vendors queue for punishment as 'ThinkPwn' fallout spreads Security06 Jul 2016 | 14
'Irongate' attack looks like Stuxnet, quacks like Stuxnet ... Thankfully it isn't as bad Stuxnet, but Siemens control kit is in theoretical peril Security03 Jun 2016 | 5
60 per cent of Androids exposed by new attack on mediaserver Yet again, the fix would be proper vetting of code in Google Play and other app stores Security20 May 2016 | 14
Android Lollipop sucks at security, says researcher Opaque apps mean you're not clicking what you think you're clicking Security19 May 2016 | 11
Blocking ads? Smaller digital publishers are smacked the hardest More mobile operators to incorporate the software Legal11 May 2016 | 135
Researcher arrested after reporting pwnage hole in elections site Savage Havij Security09 May 2016 | 78
How to evade the NSA: OpSec guide for journalists also used by terrorists No iPhones apparently a rule. Imagine that Security04 May 2016 | 54
Perth SmartRider public transport cards popped by student researchers WAHckon Hack the Planet uni club lands in court over 'white hat' MiFare probe Security02 May 2016 | 6
URL shorteners reveal your trip to strip club, dash to disease clinic – research Google, Microsoft push fixes but others likely exposed Security15 Apr 2016 | 37
Bug bounty blitzers open-source sick subdomain-spotter BSides Canberra Automated, faster hacking for fun and profit ... or evil? Security15 Apr 2016 | 2
Half of people plug in USB drives they find in the parking lot Why do we even bother with security software? Security11 Apr 2016 | 115