Hackers Can Steal PIN Codes from Wearables
Your wearable device is tracking your hand movements, which is great if you want to know how many calories you’ve burned, but terrible if you don’t want hackers to know how to get into your bank account.
FDA Issues Guidance on Medical Device Cybersecurity
As part of it overall effort to ensure the safety of patients, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a draft guidance document detailing steps that medical device manufacturers should take to a... Read More...
$77 Million DARPA Program for Early Detection of Cyber Attacks on Electrical Grid
The U.S. Department of Defense is soliciting research and development proposals for ways to protect the United States from potential attacks on the electrical infrastructure (a.k.a. the grid). The new $77 milli... Read More...
Researchers Develop Algorithms to Defend Smart Grid
The U.S. Department of Energy is moving to a “smart grid” model This new energy system will use digital technology to communicate and transfer energy in a more thoughtful way. The downside is that opening additional access points make the grid vulnerable to both accidental and malicious power failure. It’s possible for hackers to send false information to mislead grid operators, influencing the decisions they make about how to manage the network of electricity. One approach for securing the grid from potential cyberattacks uses game and control theory.
Coolest Engineering Job Title: Google Security Princess
Parisa Tabriz’s job is to hack into Google Chrome to find security holes in the system before the “black hat” hackers do. She is one of just a handful of women who work in security and the larger technology sph... Read More...
Electromagnetic Leakage Poses Security Risk
A team of Google researchers warns that electromagnetic leakage from transistors on memory chips can be used by hackers to cause bit flips that can bypass a computer’s security protections. They described t... Read More...
President Addresses Cybersecurity
President Obama gave cybersecurity unprecedented attention in his State of the Union address this week, with cyber threats being discussed right along with terrorism and Ebola. He has urged private industry to ... Read More...
Sony Cyber Attacks Prompt EMP National Planning
The recent cyber attacks on Sony and South Korean nuclear power plants have spurred national discussions about how to protect technology and infrastructure from other forms of attack which could disrupt the Ame... Read More...
Comment Period Soon Closing on Project to Address Cybersecurity of Medical Devices
Concerns over the cybersecurity of medical devices have been raised on multiple accounts this past year.
A breach in the security of these devices could lead to incorrect dosage administration and ... Read More...
Engineers Developing Ways to Protect Wi-Fi Users from Eavesdropping
Researchers at the University of Arizona's College of Engineering are developing software and methods to increase cybersecurity for Wi-Fi users. Wi-Fi communications transmit data packets, also known as sig... Read More...